In January 1985, Dinho Ouro Preto had already left Brasilia for São Paulo – he was born in 1964 in Curitiba and spent his childhood and adolescence between the federal capital and foreign cities, due to the career of his father, a diplomat – , but he didn’t have to come to Rock in Rio.

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– I remember friends from Brasilia went, maybe Renato (Russo), but I had no money, I was paying rent here in São Paulo – says the singer of Capital Inicial, who was soon to start a long relationship with the festival. – In 1991, national bands were still treated differently, so some ended up canceling (like Barão Vermelho and Gilberto Gil). We felt a bit like a side show, not exactly part of the party.

With four albums already released and hits such as “Música urban”, “Independência” and “Belos e malditos”, Capital performed on the night of January 26, 1991 at the Maracanã, in a journey that also featured A-ha , Debbie Gibson, Happy Mondays, Information Society, None of Us and Paulo Ricardo, among the names initially chosen and moved.

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From the outset, Capital and Rock in Rio began a solid relationship in 2001, when the festival returned to the original rock city.

“I was out of the band for five years, from 1993 to 1998,” he recalls. – We came back with the album “Atrás dos Olhos”, we started to reappear, still timidly, until we recorded “Acústico MTV” (2000), and we reached an unprecedented level of success in the world. history of the group.

With guitars and songs like “Primeiros Erros”, by Kiko Zambianchi (who accompanied the group during concerts), “Leve despair” and “O Passenger”, a version of “The Passenger”, by Iggy Pop, Capital has gained popularity to the point of being cast at the festival, on the closing night (this also contributed to the cancellation of Brazilian groups like O Rappa, Raimundos and Charlie Brown Jr, unhappy with their working conditions).

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– We traveled all over Brazil with the acoustic show, playing seated, just like the MTV special – he says. – We were at Maranhão when we saw Brown’s episode on TV (the Bahian singer was harassed by the public while performing at a more rock party, where Guns N’ Roses was the attraction main). We feel the pressure. Our night was the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Silverchair, Deftones, heavier bands, very different from the acoustic gig we had done.

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Arriving in Rio, the band performed a rehearsal in which guitarist Loro Jones swapped guitar for guitar and the band played on their feet, in a light electrification of the “Acoustic”. To add to the nervousness, drummer Fê Lemos closed the van door with his own thumb and an unexpected visitor appeared in the locker room.

– That crazy Thomas Green Morton (a kind of star guru), I don’t know how he managed to get in – Dinho remembers laughing, 21 years later. – Everything looked like a Fellini movie, I was trying to calm myself down, I kept repeating the numbers to myself. We had already sold 350,000 copies of Acoustic. I thought, “If not now, when will it be?”

It was. The nearly 250,000 people in attendance sang ‘Primeiros Erros’, ‘Natasha’, ‘Tudo que Vai’ and other hits with Capital, and Rock in Rio served as the band’s platform to return to the nation’s most popular rock pantheon. . , where she is until today, where she celebrates her 40-year career. The first show of the commemorative tour will take place on September 9 at Rock in Rio, a night painted in punk paintings (soft, like those of Capital itself), with Green Day, Billy Idol and Fall Out Boy rounding out Palco’s cast. World. The group marks four decades with the live album “Capital Inicial 4.0”, in which they play hits and B-sides alongside guests such as Pitty, Samuel Rosa and youngsters Marina Sena and Ana Gabriela. The initial idea was to re-record “MTV Acoustic”, one of the most successful of the series – and which was not on streaming platforms until recently – but the pandemic thwarted the plans, and 2022 arrived. Plus another Rock in Rio.

– From 1991 until now, we only played at the 2015 festival, when Marisinha (Menezes, festival producer and national bands curator on Palco Mundo) called me to organize a rock tribute national, which was celebrating its 30th anniversary. Oh! We played in Lisbon too, in 2014, the day after the Rolling Stones! Imagine that, man!

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He obviously does not question the regularity of his group at the event (according to the production, Capital is part of the “family” of festival artists, in addition to having been selected by the Chili Peppers themselves in 2011, which made it mandatory in all of the California band’s performances at the festival).

– I have to get used to the idea of ​​not singing one day at Rock in Rio – he said. – But I hope it will take time. I’m having so much fun, it’s a catharsis, a communion. The festival is much bigger than all the bands. I just thanked you.