Music Style Rock/metal/Christian

Musical Influences Iron Maiden, U2, Scorpions, Tarantula.... :)

Similar Artists hmm.... no one!

Artist History The band really started in January 2001, but for a long time there was always something saying that we should be working together….. We had known each other since we were children and we were always good friends. We started learning classical music together practically at the same time at the Conservatorio de Musica do Porto, but due to circumstances I was the only one who finished the course. We were all interested in another style of music from the very beginning. We all went our separate ways, I joined a rock band called Skara and even recorded a CD!  We decided to stop, as the members of Skara decided to follow different paths, but we always remained friends. Just for information I was always the singer so my training started early by myself! Tonito and Valentim (guitarist and drummer) started with a band called Coma-Alcoolica, Tonito as the guitarist and Valentim as the bass player!!! After the drummer left they decided to have a change around and Valentim became the drummer and with some training it proved to be the best solution as they soon recruited a new bass player, José Marques and a keyboard player. After the singer left they changed their name to ‘Arco d’a Velha’ and it wasn’t long after that we were working together…. Both bands decided to stop at the same time, ‘Arco d’a Velha’ because the singer and keyboard player left and ‘Skara’ because we wanted to follow different directions. But I have to say that these bands were very important to us because we learned a great deal from the experience and principally, we made some very good friends. May God continue to embrace our friends…. So Hifen really began in January 2001 after a meeting we had at the end of December 2000. The members were myself, Flávio, (Flásh) the singer, Tonito, lead guitar, Valentim the drummer and José Marques on bass guitar. We started performing some months after in a school for some friends and their friends! The funny thing is, we didn’t have enough music to perform a long concert, but we managed to find a way. So after some hard work, composing and some more concerts in the middle we managed to record a very funny CD on my computer, with outstanding results! But we are always learning and so always improving and now I think we have discovered a way to do it properly… We then entered a competition the ‘VI Festival de Musica Moderna de Gondomar’ and out of he 400 bands which entered, we came 7th! Not bad for a band which only started a few months ago! I won the prize for Best Vocalist 2001 which surprised me very much. After so many years singing by myself I decided to have professional lessons and would recommend it to everyone who wants to sing in a band as it teaches you how to control your voice, which so important. All of us in the band have had proper training to play our instruments but now we feel that we want to go and find our own way as a band and one day in the future I feel sure we will meet along the Wild Road……   ‘A man’s heart devises his way, But the Lord directs his steps’  Dream on………  Yours, FLÁSH

Group Members Flavio: Lead Singer/lyricist Tonito: Guitar Marques: Bass Guitar Valentim: Drums/percussion

Location Porto, Gondomar - Portugal

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