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'''Aaron Brick''' is a guy. See http://www.lithic.org .

I have worked on the articles of some cool historical-type cats: [[Pánfilo de Narváez]], [[John Robinson Pierce]], [[Lord Buckley]], [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]], [[Jacques Brel]].Renato Russo''' ([[March]] [[27]], [[1960]] - [[October 11]], [[1996]]) was the formal founder and leader of the most well known [[Brazil]]ian rock band, [[Legião Urbana]].

He was born in [[Rio de Janeiro]], as '''Renato Manfredini Júnior'''. His father was a executive of the [[Banco do Brasil]], and they moved to [[New York]] in 1967, when Renato's father was transferred to there. Later, they came back to Rio de Janeiro before finally, in 1973, they moved to [[Brasília]].

When Renato was 15, he suffered an illness which made his legs paralized for two years. Because of the illness, Renato used the time to read. He passed without difficuties in the [[Vestibular]], for [[Law]]. He started to be interested in [[music]], [[punk]] music, especially. He worked as a journalist for some time before abandoning it to become a musician and composer.

During [[1978]] and [[1979]], he was the a guitarrist of the [[Aborto Eletrico]]. Although the band did not survived for long, Renato Russo wrote many songs during this period, that would be hits of [[Capital Inicial]] (founded by the other integrants of the Aborto Eletrico) and Legião Urbana (founded by Renato Russo).

In 1982, he, along with Marcelo Bonfá, Dado Villa-Lobos and Renato Rocha, they formed the Legião Urbana (idealized some time before by Renato Russo). With "Legião Urbana" and "Dois", they became widely famous in [[Brazil]], with its songs with words of protest and justice, at first, and love, spiritualism, family and sex, after. 

Renato Russo, in 1990, declared that he was [[bisexual]]. He also used [[drugs]] in the beginning of his career. 

He worked in two solos, with English and Italian songs, in the [[1992s]].

He died in 1996 but the cause of his death is still unknown. He had [[AIDS]], but many argues that he commited [[suicide]] (he had [[depression]], expressed in the "Via Lactea" song, of the "A Tempestade" Album - "When everything is lost / I feel so alone / When everything is lost / I don't want to be / Who I am")

After his death, the remaining integrants of Legião Urbana decided to dismantle the band. Renato Russo was the writer of 95% of the songs of the band.

Renato Russo left a son, who was 8 years old.

'''Renato Russo's solo albuns'''
''Number of copies sold (in thousands)''

*The Stonewall Celebration Concert (1994) - 75
*Equilibrio Distante (1995) - 125
*O Ultimo Solo (1997) - 50
*Renato Russo Presente ([[2003]]) - 150

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