Michael Pipoquinha born in 1996 at Limoeiro do Norte, Ceará- Brazil

Since his childhood had his first contact with the guitar through his father, Elisvan Silva, whos also a musician. In 2008 he entered the Project “Cultivating Talents” at the Alberto Nepomuceno Conservatory of Ceará, doing piano, perceptions and chorus classes, and there he met and assumed his love for brazilian music, especially north east music. In 2007, he started to perform professionaly at the age of eleven years old. In 2008 he met Artur Maia, one of the exponents of national acoustic bass, idol that would become his friend. Since then, he started to blossom, participating at great Instrumental Music Festivals, as the Bass Brasil Fortaleza Festival, Guaramiranga Jazz and Blues Festival and Rio das Ostras Festival, performing with great names of the National Music, as Nelio Costa, Artur Maia, Jeferson Gonçalves and Big Time Orquestra. He collaborated at Sergio Groove'S DVD, another great reference of the brazilian bass. He started to arouse curiosity in the public and critics due to his carisma and precocious virtuosity, so he joined “De olho nele” at Domingao do Faustão, national entertainment TV show with the biggest audience of Brazilian TV, where he impressed the whole country at the age of only thirteen. The same year he showed his composer facet, starting the recording of his first album, Cearencinho, produced by Artur Maia and with the guest appearance of great musicians as, Marcelo Martins, Zé Canuto, Cainã Cavalcante, Fernando Caneca, Isaac Negrene and Erick Scobar. He also joined the São Paulo Expomusic performing with great musicians of the Brazilian Instrumental Music, such as Celso Pixinga, Mozart Mello, Faísca, Celso Almeida and others. In 2012 he joined the group New Jazz BR Trio next to the guitarist Isaac Negrene and the drumer Elthon Dias, performing at festivals through South America, in countries as Argentina and Uruguay. He presented workshops alongside the drumer Alexandre Aposan. In 2013, in his second participation at the Rio das Ostras Festival, he had the pleasure to meet idols such as Victor Wooten and Stanley Clarke and be recognized and praised in quotes from them by the Bass Player Magazine. That same year he performed as main attraction at the Gospel Jazz Festival in Colombia and also joined the Power Trio Festival, promoted by the Guitar Player Magazine. With the release of his first album, titled Cearencinho, in 2014, Michael Pipoquinha traveled around Brazil performing at shows to spread his autorial work. He collaborated at Richard Bona Workshop in Brazil, which was a great honor to his career. In 2015, Pipoquinha made his first trip to Europe, invited to join the TV program “We´ve got a talent” where he performed autorial themes from his album Cearencinho alongside the renomate Big Band WDR, in Cologne, Germany. At the end of the same year, the Bass Player Magazine published an article about Michael, where he mentioned his heroes, main influences, and the techniques applied in his music. Pipoquinha is just back from his second trip to Europe, where he performed with the guitar player Cainã Cavalcante at the Rigas Ritmi Festival, in Latvia, making also some workshops. He also performed with the singer Denise Macedo at the Araburg Soiree, Austria. This tournée also gave the surprising encounter of Romero Lubambo and Michael Pipoquinha. He joined the “Diamantina Jazz Festival”, by invitation of the great musician and instrumentalist Toninho Horta.

Besides doing his shows and workshops, Pipoquinha is currently in studio recording his second album, being produced by Sandro Hayck.