The Biography

Pedro Paulo Soares Pereira (São Paulo, April 22, 1970), better known as Mano Brown, is a Brazilian rapper and songwriter. He is one of the members of Racionais MC's, a rap group formed in São Paulo in 1988 and made up of Ice Blue (Paulo Eduardo Salvador), Edi Rock (Edivaldo Pereira Alves) and KL Jay (Kleber Geraldo Lelis Simões). In October 2008, Rolling Stone magazine promoted the list of the 100 greatest artists in Brazilian music, in which he ranked 28th.