Official name	São Caetano do Sul
Image seal	Brasao SaoCaetano SaoPaulo Brasil.svg
Coordinates display	inline,title
Leader title	Mayor
Leader name	José Auricchio Júnior (PTB)
Area total km2	15.4
Population as of	2006
Population total	133,241
Population density km2	8675
Timezone	UTC-3
Utc offset	-3
Timezone dst	UTC-2
Utc offset dst	-2
Elevation m	744
Blank name	HDI (2000)
Blank info	0.921 – very high
Website	São Caetano do Sul
Footnotes	Official IBGE 2006 Estimate |footnotes =

São Caetano do Sul (or São Caetano) is a city in São Paulo state in Brazil, located in the Greater São Paulo Metropolitan Area. It is the city with the highest per capita income in Brazil (US$ 16,500.00 in 2003) and it also has the highest Human Development Index (0.921 - between Hong Kong and Germany).

Geography

São Caetano do Sul is located on a plateau that is part of the Serra do Mar (Portuguese for "Sea Range"), part of the vast region known as the Brazilian Highlands, with an average elevation of around 800 metres (2,625 ft) above sea level - though at a distance of only about from the Atlantic Ocean.

Climate

According the Köppen climate classification São Caetano do Sul has a humid subtropical climate.

The Best Standard of Living in Brazil

São Caetano do Sul boasts the highest social indicators anywhere in the country (even if using indexes such as those that compute the HDI formula). Illiteracy rates are very low and most people enjoy a safe city with well-maintained infrastructure. The only shanty town (favela) near São Caetano is a portion of the southeastern corner of Heliopolis (São Paulo's largest slum) next to the large Petrobras oil distribution and storage facility in nearby Ipiranga. Such border areas between São Caetano and adjacent cities São Bernardo do Campo and Santo André are prone to flooding which happens frequently especially in the more impoverished areas bordering the city of São Paulo, where the Meninos creek (a tributary of the heavily polluted Tamanduateí river) is often littered with construction debris and garbage, exacerbating the flooding effect in the rainy season (Oct-Feb).

The city is served by a comprehensive network of bus routes that also connects São Caetano to its neighbouring towns. There is also one commuter train line (operated by CPTM) that connects the city to São Paulo and its neighbours to the south, Santo André and Mauá.

Demographics

Immigrants from many nationalities have settled in São Caetano but the most significant groups are Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and Japanese. In the 1950s, nationals from rural Northeastern Brazil started arriving as the region experienced a rapid industrialization boom.

Access to domestic goods (% of population)

Cellphones: 45.7%

Telephone landlines: 97%

Cars: 67.3%

Personal Computers: 41.1%

Color TVs: 99.4%

Freezers: 100%

Neighborhoods

Santo André (East and South), São Bernardo do Campo (West), São Paulo (North).

Higher education

Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul, the City University of São Caetano do Sul

Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, Escola de Engenharia Mauá, São Caetano do Sul

Source

IBGE.

PMSCS

Category:Populated places established in 1877 Category:Populated places in São Paulo (state)

Name	Nas
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Alias	Nasty Nas
Born	September 14, 1973Brooklyn, New York, United States
Origin	Queensbridge, Queens, New York
Instrument	sampler, Keyboards
Genre	Hip hop
Occupation	Rapper, actor
Years active	1991–present
Label	Columbia, Def Jam, Ill Will, The Jones Experience
Associated acts	Olu Dara, The Firm, Bravehearts, Kelis, Mobb Deep, Damian Marley, Large Professor, Game, Wu-Tang Clan
Url

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones Nas's parents divorced in 1985, and he dropped out of school in the eighth grade. He educated himself about African culture through The Five Per Cent Nation, the Bible and the Qur'an. Called the new Rakim,

1999–2000: I Am... and Nastradamus

In 1998, Nas began work on a double album, to be entitled I Am... The Autobiography; he intended it as the middle ground between Illmatic and It Was Written, with each track detailing a part of his life. The album was completed in early 1999, and a music video was shot for its lead single, "Nas Is Like". It was produced by DJ Premier and contained vocal samples from "It Ain't Hard to Tell". Music critic M.F. DiBella noticed that Nas also covered "politics, the state of hip-hop, Y2K, race, and religion with his own unique perspective" in the album besides autobiographical lyrics.

Columbia had scheduled to release the pirated material from I Am... under the title Nastradamus during the latter half of 1999, but, at the last minute, Nas decided to record an entire new album for the 1999 release of Nastradamus. Nastradamus was therefore rushed to meet a November release date. Though critics were not kind to the album, it did result in a minor hit, "You Owe Me". It was produced by Timbaland and featured R&B; singer Ginuwine. The only pirated track from I Am... to make it onto Nastradamus was "Project Windows," featuring Ronald Isley. A number of the other bootlegged tracks later made their way onto The Lost Tapes, a collection of underground Nas songs that was released by Columbia in September 2002. The collection saw decent sales and received glowing reviews. QB's Finest is a compilation album that featured Nas and a number of other rappers from Queensbridge projects, including Mobb Deep, Nature, Capone, the Bravehearts, Tragedy Khadafi, Millennium Thug and Cormega, who had briefly reconciled with Nas. The album also featured guest appearances from Queensbridge hip-hop legends Roxanne Shanté, MC Shan, and Marley Marl. Shan and Marley Marl both appeared on the lead single "Da Bridge 2001," which was based on Shan & Marl's 1986 recording "The Bridge." Jay-Z, in his song "Takeover", criticized Nas by calling him "fake" and his career "lame". In the song, Jay-Z explicitly boasts about having an affair with Nas's girlfriend, Carmen Bryan.

Nas was featured on Kanye West's album Late Registration on a song titled "We Major". West said the song was Jay-Z's favorite on the album, but West was unable to get Jay-Z to record a vocal for the final mix of the song. He also appeared on Damian Marley's song "Road to Zion" and several other songs such as "Death Anniversary" and "It Wasn't You" (featuring Lauryn Hill).

2006: Hip Hop Is Dead

In January 2006, Nas signed a label deal with Def Jam, emphasizing collaboration over competition with former rival Jay-Z. Nas's original title for his next album was Hip Hop Is Dead...The N

Personal life

In 1994, Nas's ex-fiancée Carmen Bryan gave birth to their daughter, Destiny. Bryan had allegedly had a sexual relationship with Jay-Z and Allen Iverson after she and Nas had split up. In 2005, Nas married R&B; singer Kelis in Atlanta after a two-year relationship. On April 30, 2009, a spokesperson confirmed that Kelis filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Kelis gave birth to his first son on July 21, 2009, although the event was soured by a disagreement which ended in Nas announcing the birth of his son, Knight, at a gig in Queens, NY, against Kelis' wishes. The birth was announced by Nas via an online video. On July 23, a judge in New York City ordered Nas to pay Kelis $55,000 per month in child and spousal support after Kelis tried to collect $100,000 a month in child support. The couple's divorce was finalized May 21, 2010.

Nas is a spokesperson and mentor for P'Tones Records a non-profit after school music program that's mission is "to create constructive opportunities for urban youth through no-cost music programs" Nas is also an adherent to the Nation of Gods and Earths, otherwise called five percenters.

Discography

; Studio albums

Illmatic (1994)

It Was Written (1996)

I Am... (1999)

Nastradamus (1999)

Stillmatic (2001)

God's Son (2002)

Street's Disciple (2004)

Hip Hop Is Dead (2006)

Untitled (2008)

; Collaboration albums

The Firm: The Album (with The Firm) (1997)

QB's Finest (with Various Artists) (2000)

Distant Relatives (with Damian Marley) (2010)

; Compilation albums

(2002)

The Lost Tapes (2002)

Greatest Hits (2007)

The Lost Tapes: Vol. 2 (2011)

Filmography

Awards/Nominations

Grammy Awards

* 2010, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Too Many Rappers" Nominated

* 2009, Best Rap Solo Performance: "N*gger" Nominated

* 2009, Best Rap Album: (Nas) Nominated

* 2008, Best Rap Album: (Hip-Hop Is Dead) Nominated

* 2008, Best Rap Performance by a duo or Group: "Best Than I Ever Been" Nominated

* 2003, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "The Essence" Nominated

* 2003, Best Short-Form Music Video: "One Mic" Nominated

* 2000, Best Rap Album: (I Am) Nominated

* 1997, Best Rap Solo Performance: "If I Ruled the World" Nominated

MTV Video Music Awards

* 2005, Best Hip-Hop Video: "Bridging the Gap" Nominated

* 2003, Best Rap Video: "I Can" Nominated

* 2003, Best Rap Video: "Thug Mansion" Nominated

* 2002, Video of the Year: "One Mic" Nominated

* 2002, Best Rap Video: "One Mic" Nominated

* 1999, Best Rap Video: "Hate Me Now" Nominated

References

Further reading

External links

Official site at Def Jam

Nas at MTV

Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:1990s rappers Category:2000s rappers Category:2010s rappers Category:African American film actors Category:African American rappers Category:American dance musicians Category:Columbia Records artists Category:Def Jam Recordings artists Category:Hip hop activists Category:Ill Will Records artists Category:Members of the Nation of Gods and Earths Category:People from Queens Category:Rappers from New York City

Playername	Jorge Tavares
Fullname	Jorge Humberto Pinto Tavares
Dateofbirth	April 22, 1983
Cityofbirth	Oeiras
Countryofbirth	Portugal
Height
Position	Forward
Currentclub	Free agent
Youthyears1	1995–1998
Youthclubs1	Carcavelos
Youthyears2	1998–2003
Youthclubs2	Sporting Clube de Portugal
Youthyears3	2003–2005
Youthclubs3	Belenenses
Years1	2004–2005 | clubs1 = Belenenses | caps1 = 1 | goals1 = 1
Years2	2005–2008 | clubs2 = Olivais e Moscavide | caps2 = 73 | goals2 = 10
Years3	2008–2009 | clubs3 = Gloria Buzău | caps3 = 16 | goals3 = 0
Years4	2009–2010 | clubs4 = Ayia Napa | caps4 = 20 | goals4 = 2
Years5	| clubs5 = | caps5 = | goals5 =

Jorge Humberto Pinto Tavares (born 22 April 1986) is a Portuguese footballer.

External links

Official Website BancadaVIP.com zerozero

playerhistory

foradejogo.net

Category:Portuguese footballers Category:Portuguese expatriate footballers Category:Sporting Clube de Portugal footballers Category:C.F. Os Belenenses players Category:C.D. Olivais e Moscavide players Category:FC Gloria Buzău players Category:Primeira Liga players Category:Liga I players Category:Association football midfielders Category:Expatriate footballers in Romania Category:Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Category:Portuguese expatriates in Romania Category:Portuguese expatriates in Cyprus Category:People from Lisbon District Category:Living people Category:1986 births

Name	André Matos
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	André Coelho Matos
Born	September 14, 1971São Paulo, Brazil
Instrument	Vocals, keyboards, piano, organ, drums
Genre	Heavy metal, power metal, speed metal, symphonic metal, progressive metal, neo-classical metal
Occupation	Musician, author
Years active	1985–present
Label	Universal Music, Limb Music/Rising Son, Massacre Records, Lucretia Records, Rock Brigade
Associated acts	Viper, Angra, Shaaman, Avantasia, Aina, Luca Turilli, Symfonia
Url	Andre Matos.net

André Coelho Matos (born September 14, 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil) is the former vocalist, pianist and composer for the heavy metal and power metal bands Viper, Angra and Shaaman. Since October 2006 Andre Matos has been dedicating his time to his solo band.

Biography

Viper, Angra and Shaaman

Matos grew up in his hometown of São Paulo, Brazil. Matos began his musical education at the age of ten, when he received his first piano from his parents. As a teen, he would gather with his friends to listen to their favorite bands. Soon they began learning to play music too, and Matos joined his first band, Viper. The band first performed on 8 April 1985, when he was just thirteen years old. That same year, they recorded their first demo tape, "The Killera Sword".

Within a short while, Viper had become a phenomenon in the Brazilian heavy metal scene. They are considered to be the second band to blend classical music with heavy metal. Though Matos continued on vocals, he had no pretention of remaining a vocalist, a role he assumed only because his singing was the "least poor vocals of all of them", and because he physically resembled Iron Maiden's vocalist, Bruce Dickinson. His instruments of choice were always the piano and keyboard instruments. Matos left Viper when the band began to change its musical style. He had become interested in classical music, and felt that his musical vision had begun to diverge from that of the other band members, who wanted to focus on heavier, "crude" music.

After leaving Viper, Andre went back to school and finished his education in music, specializing in orchestral conducting and music composition.

In 1991 Angra was formed, and with the first album, Angels Cry, released in 1993, the band became famous in Japan and Europe. Later Holy Land and Fireworks were released. Angra's style evolved from a Helloween-inspired melodic speed metal to a unique blend of heavy-metal, classical music and traditional Brazilian influences which brought them worldwide critical praise.

Andre took part in a worldwide contest for replacing Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden and was in the Top 3 finalists alongside James LaBrie and eventual winner, Blaze Bayley.

In 2001, he left the band Angra alongside the rhythm section composed of Luis Mariutti (bass) and Ricardo Confessori (drums) because of a disagreement with guitar players Rafael Bittencourt and Kiko Loureiro concerning the band's management.

Andre stayed with Angra's former rhythm section and recruited Luis' brother Hugo Mariutti on the guitar : together they formed the band Shaman, who had to change names to Shaaman before the release of their second album for legal reasons.

The Band was a sudden success due to the song Fairy Tale that was in a Brazilian Soap Opera Beijo do Vampiro (Vampire Kiss) and this fame reached worldwide in a little while... The first album, called Ritual, sold over 200.000 copies worldwide in the first year of its release and resulted in a tour with 150 concerts around the World and a DVD called Ritualive before an audience of more than 7.000 Brazilians in São Paulo.

Their seconde release, Reason, kept the fame and culminated in a concert in front of 10.000 people in Rio de Janeiro. After this, the band owner and former Angra Drummer Confessori fired Matos and Mariutti brothers from the band.

Andre Matos Solo

After leaving Shaaman along with the Mariutti brothers, Hugo and Luis, he released his first solo record Time To Be Free under the name "Andre Matos", in August 2007.

Time To Be Free

Nowadays Matos is Carrying his solo career on along with Mariutti brothers. But he often says that calling it a solo career is a big mistake, because it's not a solo career, it's a band with his name, and they all decided so, due to the fame of his names around the world and the frequent departure from other bands. Their first release, called Time To Be Free, produced by ROY Z, a themed album which the lyrics take place in his departure from Shaman, due to his demision by the drummer Ricardo Confessori, as we can notice in the album's name itself, and it's the most symphonic album wrote by matos. However the album reached good charts both in Brazil and Europe, getting the fourth place in Russian charts and second place in Japan. The album was a success both in the specialized critique and in the opinion of the fans. Time To Be Free is more personal, even though the guitarist Hugo Mariutti has written almost every song along with Matos and Pit Passarel an ex band partner of Matos in Viper that was also a guest in this album.

Besides all success heading the release of the album and the expectation over the album Matos decided not to record any worldwide videoclip, he only recorded and released an exclusive videoclipe for the Japanese audience which features a cover.

Time To Be Free was followed by a tour with more than 50 concerts all over the world, Matos was invited to be touring with Scorpion and Edguy (This one is an old friend, and this friendship began when Matos was in Angra and Edguy was invited to be the front act for Angra's Fireworks tour) taking place in Europe, Brazil and Japan and in great festivals like Loud Park, Live and Louder and, for the first time in Finland, Finnish Metal Expo, Matos was also Called to be headliner in ProgPower USA, but due to problems with their passport they canceled the concert, being replaced by another Brazilian band called MindFlow. At the very end of the tour, Matos joined Hangar (A Brazilian raising band in metal scenery which counts with Aquiles Priester, former Drummer from Angra) to a Metal Christmas Project, this was an exclusive Brazilian tour that had concerts in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and the whole country, then Andre Matos went back to the studio to record his new album.

Mentalize

The Mentalize album is more heavy metal than ever, strength, power and rage are seen like never this time and it's not symphonic as the previous album, heavy elements, powerful riffs and a strong voice are present in this release.

Mentalize was released in Brasil and Japan first, at the end of 2009 and a tour started in Brazil, having concerts in Rio de Janeiro, Recife, São Paulo, Fortaleza and some other cities. It will be released in early 2010 in Europe, then Matos will profit to play in some summer festivals.

Mentalize was produced by Corciolli, Mixed by Sascha Paeth.

Avantasia

Matos was one of the many guests in Avantasia's new Album The Wicked Symphony - as he was in its earliest albums. Matos toured with Avantasia lately in its previous world tour as one of the main guests.

New band

Last news are that he's currently part of Symfonia, a power metal supergroup formed in with Timo Tolkki, Uli Kusch, Jari Kainulainen and Mikko Härkin. They are expected to make their debut performance at Finnish Metal Expo 2011.

Andre Matos band members

Andre Matos - Vocals & Piano

Andre Hernandes - Guitars

Hugo Mariutti - Guitars

Bruno Ladislau - Bass Guitar

Eloy Casagrande - Drums

Fabio Ribeiro - Keyboards

Former member

Rafael Rosa - Drums

Luís Mariutti - Bass Guitar

Discography

Viper

Studio Albums

Soldiers of Sunrise - 1987

Theatre of Fate - 1989

Other

The Killera Sword (Demo) - 1985

1989 (Demo) - 1989

20 Years Living for the Night (Documentary) - 2005

Angra

Studio Albums

Angels Cry - 1993

Holy Land - 1996

Fireworks - 1998

Other

''Reaching Horizons (Demo)- 1992

"Evil Warning" (Single) - 1994

Eyes of Christ (EP)- 1996

Freedom Call (EP) - 1996

"Make Believe" (Single) - 1996

Holy Live (Live) - 1997

"Rainy Nights" (Single) - 1997

"Lisbon" (Single) - 1998

Live In Neverland - 2009

Virgo (Side project)

Studio Albums

Virgo - 2001

Shaaman

Studio Albums

Ritual - 2002

Reason - 2005

Other

Shaman (Demo) - 2001

"Fairy Tale" (Single) - 2002

"For Tomorrow" (Single) - 2003

RituAlive (Live) - 2003

"Innocence" (Single) - 2005

"More" (Single) - 2005

Symfonia

Solo career

Studio Albums

Time To Be Free - 2007 # 2 Japanese Charts

Mentalize - 2009 # 125 Japanese Charts

Other participations

Nepal - Manifiesto - 1996

Looking-Glass-Self - Equinox - 1998

Superior - Younique - 1998

Time Machine - Secret Oceans Part II - 1998

Sagrado Coração da Terra - Ao Oeste do Sol, Oeste da Lua - 2000

Rodrigo Alves - Suddenly - 2000

Hamlet - William Shakespeare's Hamlet - 2001

Holy Sagga - Planetude - 2001

Karma - Into the Eyes - 2001

Henceforth - I.Q.U. - 2001

Avantasia - (The Metal Opera) Parts I & II - 2001 / 2002

Avalanch - Los Poetas Han Muerto - 2002

Luca Turilli - Prophet of the Last Eclipse - 2002

Dr. Sin - Ten Years Live - 2003

AINA - Days of Rising Doom - 2004

Thalion - Another Sun - 2004

Epica - Consign to Oblivion - 2005

Viper - All My Life - 2007

Clairvoyants - Word to the Wise - 2008

HDK - System Overload - 2009

Corciolli - Lightwalk - 2009

Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony - 2010

References

External links

Andre Matos' official website

Andre Matos' official myspace

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