Salário Mínimo

Although their name would draw blank stares from most anyone outside their homeland, São Paulo, Brazil’s Salário Mínimo — or “Minimum Wage” in Portuguese — were among the key pioneers of hard rock for the reason that South American country. Created in 1979, when Brazilian youngsters culture still battled for manifestation from within the iron hold of the two-decade-long armed service dictatorship, and a nationwide rock and roll scene — by no means mind much metallic one — appeared like an difficult desire, Salário Mínimo became fittings in what exceeded for a golf club circuit around São Paulo at that time. Support for regional talent was therefore scarce, actually, that this group — made up of guitarist Júnior Muzilli, bassist Magoo, drummer Bea Junior, and colorfully called vocalist China Lee — would just get their 1st opportunity to record in 1984, if they had been asked to lead two songs (“Cabeça Metallic” and “Delírio Estelar”) towards the seminal S.P. Metallic compilation. Released simply months prior to the famous Rock and roll in Rio event that finally brought Brazilians in person with a number of the world’s biggest rock and roll & roll superstars in January of 1985, the comp helped to develop Salário Mínimo’s profile and resulted in a cope with RCA. Sadly, by enough time Salário Mínimo unleashed their full-length debut, Beijo Fatal, in 1987, their cleaner hard rock and roll audio and glammed-up picture no more gelled with the neighborhood movement’s more severe, English-speaking metallic exponents (Sepultura, Sarcofago, Vulcano, etc.); nor achieved it gibe with mainstream rock and roll consumers. Sales had been dismal and gigs ultimately dry out; the music group was duly lowered and then made a decision to contact it quits by 1990. Salário Mínimo’s cult charm lingered, nevertheless, and, aswell as sparking sporadic and unforeseen fan fascination with Beijo Fatal from overseas through the years that implemented, local nostalgia was also more than enough to convince the group to re-form and begin performing occasional displays once again in 2002.