Humberto Gessinger

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Humberto Gessinger (born December 24, 1963) is the singer and bassist of the famous Brazilian band Engenheiros do Hawaii.

Gessinger was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In late 1984, he formed a rock band with two friends from the faculty of architecture at UFRGS, Carlos Maltz and Marcelo Pitz to play in in a parade made by students complaing the of class during a professor's strike. The band decided to call themselves Engenheiros do Hawaii (Engineers from (and also: of the) Hawaii), which was a name making fun at the majority of the engineering students using surf wears at the university campus.

The band released their first album in 1986, although, they appeared in a 'promising bands' collection of bmg music at 1985. With the departure of Marcelo Pitz in May 1987, Gessinger started playing bass and the band recruited Augusto Licks as lead guitarist. In 2001, with yet another new formation of the band (Paulinho Galvão on guitar, Bernardo Fonseca on bass and Gláucio Ayala on drums) he returned to lead guitar. He is the only original member of the band who is still with the group.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been married to architect Adriana Setsi, who was his girlfriend since high school and during college times. In 1993 they had their first-born daughter Clara Gessinger, who, as a baby, appeared in several videos promoting the band's latest album at the time: Gessinger, Licks & Maltz.