Alexandre Birck

Birck was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, on November 10, 1967. He is the nephew of both screenwriter and theater director Carlos Augusto de Campos Velho (better known as Jota Pingo) and film and television actor Paulo César Pereio,[1] and his mother, Rosa Maria de Campos Velho, was the director of the Teatro de Arena de Porto Alegre.[2]

In 1983, alongside his older brother Marcelo Birck, future TNT guitarist Luís "Tchê" Gomes and future Os Cascavelletes bassist Frank Jorge, Alexandre was part of the short-lived band Prisão de Ventre, which lasted only for two years.[3][4] In 1987 he reunited with his brother and Jorge to form, alongside Carlo Pianta, the cult band Graforreia Xilarmônica. After releasing two critically acclaimed albums, Coisa de Louco II (1995) and Chapinhas de Ouro (1998), they broke up in 2000, but reunited after a 5-year hiatus.

In 1988 the Birck brothers founded Aristóteles de Ananias Jr., a side project to Graforreia Xilarmônica, alongside Luciano Zanatta, Diego Silveira and Chico Machado. They have released a single, self-titled studio album in 1996 before disbanding the following year.[5]

For a short time in 1998 Alexandre served as a session musician for experimental rock band DeFalla, and was also part of the country/blues rock ensemble Os Daltons.[6] He also gave lectures on music theory at Unisinos around the mid-2000s.