Hebert Vianna's History

Herbert Vianna (born May 4, 1961) is a very successful singer, songwriter and guitarist known for play in “Paralamas do Sucesso”. Born in João Pessoa, Paraiba he moved to Brasilia as a kid and there he met friends to start the band.

 Herbert always liked airplanes since he was a children and when he grew up he learned to pilot ultralight airplanes.

On February 4, 2001 he suffered an accident in the bay of Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro with his wife, Lucy Needham, mother of his 3 children: Luca, Hope and Phoebe.

The accident killed his wife and him became disable (put him on a wheelchair) and he lost part of his memory.

In the hospital he was in a Coma and he says that without his friends and famlily help and without music he couldn’t get out of the hospital.

 But after a slow recovery process, he returned to perform and he still making presentations until today and have a lot of fans around the world.

He write a lot of successful musics and still one of the most respected musicians in Brazil history.

Even with the memory of the accident and his wife and the disables he got, he made for it and he gave a come back, he confront the adversity and he inspires a lot of people until today with his history.