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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Silva
Person · male · Brazil · Vitória · born 1988
Brazilian recording artist, singer, songwriter
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1980s
Biography
English biography151 words · 4 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362200079
Biography
Lúcio Silva de Souza (born 3 July 1988), known simply as Silva, stylized as "SILVA", is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Career
Silva released his first album "Claridão" on the Som Livre label in 2012. In 2014 he released "Vista pro mar," followed by "Júpiter" in 2015, "Silva canta Marisa" in 2016, and "Brasileiro" in 2018. Silva has toured Brazil for each of his five albums and collaborated with Anitta, Fernanda Takai, Marisa Monte, Ivete Sangalo, Lulu Santos, and Ludmilla.
Recognition
Rolling Stone Brasil named the album "Vista pro mar" as No. 8 in its list of the best Brazilian albums of 2014 and in 2018 "Brasileiro" was ranked No. 22. The latter was also elected among the 25 best Brazilian albums of the first half of 2018 by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics.
Personal life
Silva is openly gay and was in a relationship with Fernando Sotele from 2016 to 2019.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Silva head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silva_cantor_2017.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17267219seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silva_%28musician%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silva_%28musician%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Brazilian musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Teca Lamboglia · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q17267219 · MusicBrainz: 3ef9936f-9f5a-45f8-a80d-73684e4f2ef2
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