Argenis Brito

Argenis Brito was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Since early age showed remarkable interest on music , at the age of 7 studied piano for 4 years and at the age of 13 was already enrolled as a singer, in a popular boy group in Venezuela that became very well know in the early 80's in Latin America and the U.S. In 1985 formed his first band called "WAG", where he played the bass, did backing vocals and wrote the music together with his former partner G. Montaño. This project released two albums, one in Mexico in 1986 and the second one in Venezuela in 1988, which gained them two successful radio singles and massive concerts all over Venezuela. In 1994 moved to NYC, looking for new horizons to expand his musical knowledge, played in different session bands until he met with chilean rockstar Jorge Gonzalez, then is when his interest for electronic sonorities began. They worked closely together on the project " GM and his thinking congas", an album which main aim was to combine in perfect balance classics of Latin american music with the sound of electronic music. On this project participated as well the german-chilean producer Dandy Jack, Tobias Freund and Uwe Schmidt a.k.a. Atom tm. In the year 1998, A.B. moved to Santiado de Chile to continue working with Jorge Gonzalez, they made a tour across Chile and Peru with a band called "Los Dioses" including Miguel Tapia, former drummer of Jorge Gonzalez prestigious band "Los Prisioneros". On the same year A.B. came for the first time to Europe to perform with Gonzalo Martinez in Germany. Due to the contact made with Atom tm in Chile they started working on the second album of Atom's project "Sr. Coconut", which consists in cover versions of well known classical pop and rock songs in a peculiar latin-cha cha cha-mambo interpretations. He participates as a singer and frontman of the orchestra and since then, they have performed all over Europe, America and Asia and have released three albums. Parallel to Sr. Coconut's activities, he met with chilean producer Pier Bucci and developed the project "Mambotur", focused as well in the experimentation with latin and electronic music but with a very different approach, creating original tracks and mixing very different influences from both, latin and electronic music. They released two albums "Atina Latino" (2002), and "Al Frente" (2005) and performed in major festivals and venues across Europe. Together with Pier and swiss-chilean producer Luciano co- produced four tracks for the project "Monne Automne". In 2002 A.B. changed residence to Berlin and began participating on several projects together with producer and founder of Contexterrior media, Jay Haze; this time more dance floor oriented, with a strong inclination to minimal, funky and house sounds. Projects like "The Basstards" with J.H. and Jamming Unit, "Bearback" with J.H. and Samim, "Krak Street Boyz" with J.H., and "Samim vs. Argenix" , are some of the latest releases he has co-produced. In april 2006 his first solo work "Sentidos Opuestos" was released, and since then he has been performing together with renowned dj's and producers of the global electronic music scene. In June 2007 his latest double e.p. "Micro Mundo" came out on Cadenza Records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.