Jorge Vercillo

Jorge Luiz Sant'anna Vercillo (Rio de Janeiro, 11 October 1968) is a Brazilian singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. With more than thirty years of career, Vercillo has become one of the most important names in MPB. He has won a diamond disc, as well as two Latin Grammys, in 2009 and 2010, and has been nominated twice more, in 2012 and 2013.

Vercillo also holds the record for telenovela songs on TV Globo, with 23 titles. He is considered a creator of Brazilian hits, with more than 20 songs (from 1999 to 2019) reaching the top of Brazilian charts in the adult and popular segment, and he has sold around 4.5 million copies over his career. Thus, in 2000, the third most played song on the radio in the country was Final Feliz, from Vercillo's third album, Leve. In 2002, the most performed song in the country was Que Nem Maré, taken from the famous album Elo, the second best-selling album of 2002 in the country with 1.5 million copies sold, at a delicate moment for Brazil's phonographic record industry, released by the label EMI Music. Subsequently, in 2003 and 2004, Vercillo remained at the top of the charts with his album Livre, with songs such as Monalisa, a single that again reached number one in the charts in Brazil, and Contraste. Since then, Vercillo's standing has continued to grow in the following years with the albums “Signo de ar”, adding to Vercillo's hits the single that gives the album its name, as well as the songs Melhor Lugar and Ciclo, the latter as the main theme of the telenovela A Lua Me Disse, on TV Globo. The songs were widely broadcast on radio stations across Brazil in 2005 and 2006, which led to the project “Jorge Vercillo Ao Vvo 2006” (one of the best-selling DVDs of national songs of the year, with 250,000 copies sold). Then, in 2007, Vercillo released the album “Todos Nós Somos Um”, offering a new studio sound and winning a Grammy for Best MPB Album, with praise from critics. This album contains the song Ela Une Todas como Graças, an important song in Vercillo's career, one of the main themes of the telenovela Caras & Bocas, on Rede Globo, and, surprisingly, the most performed song at weddings across Brazil.

Since then, Vercillo has released six albums and two concert DVDs. On each album, Vercillo has moved from one national hit to another, broadcast on radio stations across Brazil. They have already been recorded both by new talents and by major names in Brazilian music, such as Ana Carolina, Maria Bethânia, Caetano Veloso, Buchecha, Chrystian & Ralf, Claudia Leitte, Luiza Possi, Belo, Jorge Aragão, among others.