Andreas Kisser

Andreas Rudolf Kisser Portuguese pronunciation160 is a Brazilian guitar player, songwriter and producer. He is most known for being the guitar player for the metal band Sepultura. He has been featured on every Sepultura release since their second album, Schizophrenia. Additionally, Kisser has also been involved in other bands such as the rock supergroup Hail, Sexoturica and, more recently, De La Tierra.

Kisser was born on August 24, 1968 to a Slovene mother, from Maribor, Slovenia, and a German father in So Bernardo do Campo, a municipality in the state of So Paulo. His father was a mechanical engineer who worked for MercedesBenz Brazil and his mother was a German teacher and amateur artist. At an early age, Kisser showed an interest in music. He waswhen he started to listen to his parents records of The Beatles, Roberto Carlos and Tonico amp Tinoco. He received his first acoustic guitar from his grandmother and later won a second guitar at a game of Bingo. In his early adolescence Kisser started to play acoustic guitar first learning basic chords from the Brazilian popular music repertoire and later on classical pieces. A friend then introduced Kisser to hard rock with bands like Queen and Kiss which had a great influence on him. In 1983 he went to see Kiss live in So Paulo. Kisser eventually got his first electric guitar, a GianniniSupersonic, and an overdrive pedal. Some of his

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