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.
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.