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Marcelo Barbosa (born in 1975) is a Brazilian guitar player and music professor. He is a founder or participant of a few important Brazilian bands like progressive metal act Khallice and Angra's members project Almah. He also is a founder and an owner of a large musical institute in his home city Brasília called GTR, a columnist of the Cover Guitarra, Guitar Class and Guitar Player magazines and an Expo Music (Brazil) and NAMM (US) musical exhibitions participant. Endorser of Tagima guitars.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brazilian Progressive Metal )〕 Since September 2015, he is also Angra's guitarist while Kiko Loureiro is busy with Megadeth. ==Biography== Marcelo Barbosa began playing electric guitar when he was 11 years old. He was studying with several teachers, mainly with Allan Marshall. At 17 years old he already was a professional musician and a musical teacher in two musical schools in his home city Brasília. He then decided to establish his own one, focused on the electric guitar. Besides organizing work and managing other teachers, Barbosa established his own entire approach instead of copying or adapting any already existed one and he wrote all the didactic material.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Almah interview )〕 Marcelo also attended classes and workshops of musicians like Greg Howe, Lula Galvão, Hélio Delmiro, Toninho Horta, Guinga, Ian Guest among others. In 2002 he finished summer courses in the famous Berklee College of Music. As a result he was chosen with other 11 students to receive a scholarship for the college's regular course. However, it was not possible to continue due to GTR and his other responsibilities. Some time before that Marcelo became a member of Brasília pop rock band Zero10. They released an EP and a full-length album ''Novo Dia'' and they play almost every week at different venues of the capital of Brazil. Later on, he would restart the band Khallice, which played the progressive metal he always liked. In September 2007, Barbosa was invited to join the band Almah formed by some members of Angra and he went into a national tour with the band. By spring 2008 the line-up of Almah was finally established. First, drummer Marcelo Moreira joined Edu Falaschi, Felipe Andreoli and Marcelo Barbosa. And then, another guitarist Paulo Schroeber joined Almah. In the end of April 2008 the recording of new Almah album ''Fragile Equality'' started at Norcal studios (São Paulo) and finished in July 2008.〔 〕 Marcelo Barbosa writes articles for important guitar magazines in Brazil like Guitar Class, Cover Guitarra and Guitar Player. Some time ago Marcelo wrote a book about technique to the "Toque de Mestre" series, published by HMP.〔 Marcelo Barbosa is endorsed by Tagima, Elixir Strings, Nig pedals and Ibox. On Expomusic 2006 (a big musical exhibition in São Paulo) one of the most important guitar brands in Brazilian market TAGIMA released new MB-1, the guitar designed with Marcelo's specifications, which belongs to the select team of "Signature Series" of the company.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcelo Barbosa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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