This clash of personalities drove the creation of RPM after the duo’s work was resumed in late 1983, already in São Paulo. That was how Paulo received the invitation to join “Aura”, a jazz-rock band who still had Paulinho Valenza on drums and the native Edu Coelho on guitar.Īfter three years of rehearsals and no shows, Luiz was enchanted by electronic music and the technology of new synthesizers, while Paulo decided to live in Europe – first in France and then in London, where he wrote about musical news for Somtrês magazine and corresponded frequently with Schiavon. Paulo was starting his career as a music critic and Schiavon was a classical pianist, looking for a new, more popular path, but found it difficult to find someone. On this day they talked a lot about music. Paulo Ricardo gave his vote, giving his opinion on the lyrics in Portuguese and thus met Luiz Schiavon. The couple decided one day to visit the neighbors, who were in a crucial rehearsal that decided between singing in English or Portuguese. It all started in 1980, in São Paulo, when Paulo Ricardo was dating Eloá, who lived in front of the house where Luiz Schiavon was rehearsing with May East.
In the second half of the 1980s, they managed to break all sales records in the Brazilian music industry. It was one of the most successful bands in the history of Brazilian music. RPM (acronym for Revolutions Per Minute ) is a Brazilian rock band, formed in 1983, having been one of the most popular in the country in the years 1984 to 1987.