Early Life
Ciro Pessoa was born in São Paulo in 1957. As he turned seven years old, he was already playing some chords on the acoustic guitar. He used to read Lewis Carroll, Monteiro Lobato and Jules Verne, and used to listen to Roberto Carlos, Os Mutantes, The Beatles and Secos & Molhados. When he was eleven, he took part of a junior talent quest on the Ilha Porchat Club in São Vicente, and won the first place by throwing a performance of "Aroeira" by Geraldo Vandré.
He studied at Colégio Equipe, and, in the late 1970s, he started opening shows of artists like Walter Franco, Novos Baianos and Jards Macalé, invited by former President of CCE (Centro Cultural Equipe) Sérgio Groismann to perform at the school festivals. In one of these festivals, he took the stage for the first time with his friends which would later form the Titãs do Iê-Iê.
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