Terceira Capital

Terceira Capital formed in Brasília in 2009 as a quartet with Rodrigo Garcia on vocals, Daniel Bragança on guitar, Bruno Lemos on bass, and Vinicius Castello on drums. Their sound pulls from pop, folk, and rock, though it's less about fusion and more about the straightforward songs they write. They put out their self-titled debut album in 2012.

A few years later, their 2014 album 'Casa Vazia' gave them one of their most recognizable songs. That track, along with others like 'Dois Mundos' and 'Vida Bela,' deals in the kind of plainspoken melancholy and searching that became a hallmark of their work. They followed it with another album called 'Horizonte' in 2017.

At one point, the band faced some public accusations of plagiarism, which they addressed by defending their process. They kept making music through it. Their recordings are built around Garcia's emotive singing and the group's steady, unfussy arrangements, which have found an audience in Brazil without much grandstanding.