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  Biography
  Rafael Moreira
  Modify 30/04/2004

Guitarist Rafael Moreira is an intuitive musician whose instincts and passions are balanced by his versatility and technical dexterity. Known to concert and record buying audiences worldwide as a preeminent musician, Rafael recently completed the initial season on-camera as the lead guitarist for the hit CBS series, Rock Star: INXS. Now, with the release of Acid Guitar, his full length CD, Rafael commands center stage as a songwriter, bandleader and vocalist.

Concurrently, Rafael is recording and gigging with his rock power trio, Magnetico, at venues including House of Blues and The Roxy in Los Angeles. (Watch for more live dates and download the band’s music at www.myspace.com/magnetico.)
As the lead guitarist for the Grammy-Award winning artist, Pink, Rafael performed globally on her 2004 and 2003 Promotional Tours coinciding with the release of her latest CD, Try This. Rafael also performed on Pink's two North America tours in 2002 (the second, co-headlining with Lenny Kravitz) and a world tour that crossed Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. On camera, Rafael appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live, The American Music Awards, The David Letterman Show, Good Morning America, Regis & Kelly, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, MTV's Video Music Awards in both the U.S. and Europe, English and German Top of the Pops, and the MTV/VH-1 Fashion Awards, sharing the stage with a cast of luminaries including Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler. Rafael also honored the Boston band on MTV's Aerosmith Tribute.

Rafael is no stranger to the concert stage, having previously toured the world as the guitarist with another Grammy-award winning pop sensation, Christina Aguilera, appearing on television in Japan and Canada (where he also toured.) He was been featured with Aguilera at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and 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.

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. Born in Cambara, Parana, in Southern Brazil, Rafael came of age miles from the nearest city, far outside the range of any radio station. It was the artistic influence of his mother, a classical/jazz pianist that fueled his earliest musical ambitions. He started singing at age two, by five he was playing guitar. Continue >>>>