Rafael Moreira

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Rafael Moreira is a Brazilian-born guitarist and vocalist who is best known as the lead guitarist in the House Band for the hit CBS series, Rock Star. He has also performed as the lead guitarist for Grammy-winning artists Pink and Christina Aguilera. In addition to these performances, Rafael was invited to record on the debut project for the group Shapes, produced by Jimmy Haslip, where he performed with two legendary Brazilian artists: drummer Airto Moreira and singer Flora Purim. While performing with Pink, Rafael has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live, The American Music Awards, The Late Show with David Letterman, Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, MTV Video Music Awards in both the U.S. and Europe, English and German Top of the Pops and the MTV/VH-1 Fashion Awards. He has also performed with Christina Aguilera at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and appeared on television shows including Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, The MTV Awards, The Essence Awards, The ALMA Awards, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, VH-1's Men Strike Back and many others. Rafael and the House Band toured the United States with Paul Stanley (from KISS) in October/November 2006 as well as Australia in April 2007.

1 Rock Star House Band
2 Magnetico
3 Solo career
4 Miscellaneous Notes
5 Musical Influences
6 Education
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Rock Star House Band

The Rock Star House Band was formed in 2005 for the CBS reality TV series Rock Star: INXS. On becoming a member of the House Band ... "After being on the road with Pink throughout Europe for almost a year and a half, I got an email from Paul Mirkovich (House Band musical director) saying that he saw me playing with Pink and that he thought I was terrific (nice compliment!!) and wanted to know if I would be interested in auditioning with him for the Rock Star: INXS TV show and my reply was "lets do it!" At the auditions we got to play Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen), Need you Tonight (INXS) and Suffragette City (David Bowie) and when we finished playing, there was excitement in the room and chemistry on the stage!! Sasha also auditioned on bass with Paul and I. To complete the house band, the producers of the show ended up choosing drummer Nate Morton and rhythm guitar player Jim McGorman who were also auditioning with their own bands."^[1]

The members of the House Band reunited in July, 2006 for Rock Star: Supernova (season 2 of the CBS reality TV series Rock Star).

[edit] Magnetico

When he's not performing with other groups, Rafael has his own band - Magnetico. For information/updates on Magnetico you can go to the band's website (Magnetico). "Magnetico is a rock power trio and we always make sure the songs come first, but as you mentioned, we like stretching ourselves musically, either with really heavy grooves or free form solos. As for the writing, I basically write all of the music. I write most of the lyrics myself and collaborate with friends on others." ^[2]

[edit] Solo career

Rafael released an instrumental album in 2005. "Acid Guitar" features Joey K. on Drums, Corey McCormick on Bass and other guests. The album is a blend of Jazz/Rock with Brazilian undertones-peppered with a ton of shredding guitar solos. Produced by Rafael Moreira and mixed by Grammy Award Winner Antonio "Moogie" Canazio. You can listen to the tracks or buy the CD at CD Baby: Rafael Moreira.

Here are the tracks:

1. Basically Lost (Sentado, Sozinho, Sem Caminho)
2. Paria
3. Deep Space Funk
4. When the Samba Disappears
5. Pornomovie (Um Filme De Sacanagem)
6. Slow Burn
7. Spring Hell
8. Miracle Road

[edit] Miscellaneous Notes

Rafael won the GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology) Masters Guitar Competition while at Musicians Institute.^[3]
The audition for Pink actually called for a female guitar player. When Rafael was asked to audition he was the only male there.^[4]
Rafael - along with Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Richie Kotzen and others - was a judge at the Guitar Player magazine’s “Guitar Hero ’06” contest.^[5]

[edit] Musical Influences

Rafael states that his mother was a major influence. He grew up listening to the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Deep Purple and many others. Another major influence is John Sykes (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake) as well as Ace Frehley and KISS. He also loves jazz and fusion and enjoys improvising in any form of music.^[6]

[edit] Education

Attended the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California (1995 - 1998).^[7] ^[8] Graduating in 1996, Rafael was awarded a scholarship to continue his studies. Was a teacher at MI until he was arrested for hitting a student with a music stand. A quote from his website reads. "This has been a very strange month for me!! As you all know, a couple weeks ago I was arrested due to a scuffle with a 30 year old student while I was having my own Open Counseling at GIT in Hollywood; and, I was taken to the police station for a few hours and then released. I'm happy, very happy, to say that the District Attorney in Los Angeles reviewed the case and dropped all the charges on the grounds that I was defending myself with one of my favorite guitars (a Gibson 335) from the student who was attacking me. I had no idea that this guy was well known around Musicians Institute for attacking other teachers and having massive behavior problems. Life sometimes sends you obstacles and you have to deal with them and learn from them. I'm glad everything turned out all right."^[9]