In 2015, he was nominated for the 16th Latin Grammy Awards in the Best Brazilian Rock Album category. Humberto Gessinger is now recording a solo album which will feature 11-14 songs, however, for his tour he joins Esteban Tavares from Fresno and Paulinho Goulart. They created the duo Pouca Vogal, who stayed active for 4 years, till both singers decided to go on with their solo careers. After the band ended its activities, Gessinger joined the friend and musician Duca Leindecker, former leader of the band Cidadão Quem. In 2001, with yet another new formation of the band (Paulinho Galvão on guitar, Bernardo Fonseca on bass and Gláucio Ayala on drums) he returned to lead guitar. With the departure of Marcelo Pitz in May 1987, Gessinger started playing bass and the band recruited Augusto Licks as lead guitarist. The band released their first album in 1986, although they had already appeared in a 'promising bands' collection of BMG Music at 1985. The band decided to call themselves Engenheiros do Hawaii (Engineers from Hawaii), which was a name making fun of the surf wear that most of the Engineering students sported at the university campus. In late 1984, he formed a rock band with two friends from the faculty of architecture at UFRGS, Carlos Maltz and Marcelo Pitz, to play in a parade made by students. Gessinger was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Humberto Gessinger (born December 24, 1963) is best known as the singer, guitarist, and bassist of the Brazilian band Engenheiros do Hawaii.
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