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André Hernandes was born in São Paulo, November 18th 1970.
His contact and interest for music came early. His childhood was enriched by samba and choro gatherings organized by his grandfather, father and uncles; among his favorite pastimes was to watch Orquestra Azul rehearsals, a band that featured his older cousins who played Mahavishnu Orchestra classic. |
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At the age of 9, he used to spend his whole savings buying Beatles records. It was around this time that his interest in playing an instrument started to grow. He was given his first acoustic guitar, a gift from his father, chosen with the help of his uncle Nardo (renowned seven string-guitar player). Then his first acoustic guitar classes came on with a teacher from the neighborhood... |
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| But only at the age of 11, watching the last part of Som Pop (a video clip TV show of that time), when he saw a Van Halen live special (Fair Warning Tour) he decided to play guitar. Started listening to heavy rock bands, putting aside the samba/choro acoustic guitar inherited from his uncles and grandfather. |
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| So, when he was 13 , after having worked for a year in a drugstore delivering medication, he could save money to buy his first guitar: a Giannini SG, the amplifier Giannini Bag (“baguinho”) and a distortion pedal with no brand! |
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| In the same period of time he started having guitar classes with different teachers, until his friend told him about Michel Perie who was the one who taught him the harmony, improvisation and technique concepts in an educational and organized way. He was already taking his guitar studies very seriously, spending many hours every day studying and trying to play Van Halen and Randy Rhoads. |
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| When he was 15, after listening to Rising Force (Yngwie Malmsteen's first album), he decided to have a discipline of playing from eight to nine hours a day because he wanted to play like Malmsteen. |
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This studying routine brought an interest for instrumental music and in the following years he started researching this musical style, getting to know names like: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Steve Morse, Vinnie Moore, Greg Howe, Jeff Beck, etc...
At the age of 17, in a show of the guitar trio Trielo (a guitar trio with playback), André saw for the first time guitarist Mozart Mello playing. He wanted to start having classes with him rightaway... |
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| Then he iniciated this “battle” to get a spot as a student of Mozart, as long as this master's waiting list was huge. André went to many shows, called every week to see if there was a time for him... |
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| It went on until the day Mozart Said he would run a harmony course at Conservatório Souza Lima. The course was so hard that it started with twelve students and ended with only two. Thus Mozart decided to find a time in his Schedule for these two remaining students so they could keep having classes with him. That's how André got his spot as a student of Mozart Mello and studied with him for 5 years. |
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Mozart stimulated him to dive deeper into other styles such as jazz, blues, fusion and mpb. Music genres that, together with rock, helped him forming his musical identity.
In this same period of time Andre started playing professionally with bands like a cover of Billy Idol, Guns'n'cover, U2 and even a Dave Lee Roth cover!... |
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| His trajectory as a teacher also started at the age of 17 teaching some friends and soon he was already teaching in music schools, becoming a respected teacher with a vast material. Activity that he has done for 20 years, without putting aside his constant studies and researches. Always aiming his educational and musical identity improvement(identity that consists in blending in different styles and rhythms in a cohesive way, looking for a personality in his musical language. |
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| Currently he is dedicated to guitar teaching, teaching many professional guitarists. He records guitars and acoustic guitars for studios in São Paulo (specially publicity audio), besides playing in the band André Matos, with the brothers Luis and Hugo Mariutti, Fabio Ribeiro and Eloy Casagrande. |
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