Andre Matos

In 2001, Matos was one of the many guests on Tobias Sammet's metal opera Avantasia playing the part of "Elderane the Elf" in the Metal Opera albums. He was also part of their first world tour in 2008 as one of the main guests. In 2010, he was featured in the album The Wicked Symphony doing vocals for "Blizzard on a Broken Mirror". Matos is also featured on the live album/DVD The Flying Opera. His last appearance with Avantasia was in São Paulo June 2 2019, a few days before his death.

In 2009 his son was born named Adrian Coelho Matos Lindskog. Andre Matos died on 8 June 2019. A heart attack was cited as the cause.

On 29 June 2018 Shaman announced a reunion of their original lineup to tour in celebration of their 17th Anniversary.

On 20 April 2012, it was announced that Andre had returned to his first well-succeeded band, Viper, to make a reunion tour to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the band's debut album "Soldiers of Sunrise". The band played its first two albums, "Soldiers of Sunrise" and "Theatre of Fate" live in their entirety. After that the solo band and Viper joined each other on the secondary stage of the biggest Brazilian and one of the biggest festivals in the world, Rock in Rio, for a special concert and opening act for Helloween and Iron Maiden. On 29 June 2018 Shaman made a reunion of their original lineup to tour in celebration of their 17th Anniversary. On February 2019 Shaman were announced as a special guest with Avantasia in Brazilian concerts.

In November 2010, Andre joined Symfonia, a power metal supergroup formed in with Timo Tolkki, Uli Kusch, Jari Kainulainen and Mikko Härkin. They made their debut performance at Finnish Metal Expo 2011 and released their first and only album In Paradisum. As touring and second album plans didn't work as planned, Timo Tolkki (guitarist, ex-Stratovarius) announced that he would stop his life in the music industry and that Symfonia would not continue as a band.

Mentalize was released in Brasil and Japan first, at the end of 2009 and a tour started in Brazil, having concerts in Rio de Janeiro, Recife, São Paulo, Fortaleza and some other cities. It was released in early 2010 in Europe, then Matos would profit to play in some summer festivals.

After leaving Shaman along with the Mariutti brothers, Hugo and Luis, he released his first solo record Time To Be Free under the name "Andre Matos", in August 2007.

In 2001, he left the band Angra alongside the rhythm section composed of Luis Mariutti (bass) and Ricardo Confessori (drums) because of a disagreement with guitar players Rafael Bittencourt and Kiko Loureiro concerning the band's management.

In 1991 Angra was formed, and with the first album, Angels Cry, released in 1993, the band became famous in Japan and Europe. Later Holy Land and Fireworks were released. Angra's style evolved from a Helloween-inspired melodic speed metal to a unique blend of heavy-metal, classical music and traditional Brazilian influences which brought them worldwide critical praise.

Matos grew up in his hometown of São Paulo, Brazil. Matos began his musical education at the age of ten, when he received his first piano from his parents and as we think was a Ensoniq TS-12. As a teen, he would gather with his friends to listen to their favorite bands. Soon they began learning to play music too, and Matos joined his first band, Viper. The band first performed on 8 April 1985, when he was just thirteen years old. That same year, they recorded their first demo tape, "The Killera Sword".

André Coelho Matos (14 September 1971 – 8 June 2019) was a Brazilian vocalist, producer, pianist and composer. He was involved in the heavy metal bands Viper, Angra, Shaman and Symfonia and sold million of copies worldwide. Since October 2006, Matos had been dedicating his time to his solo career. In 2012, he was ranked #77 at the list of 100 Greatest Voices of Brazilian Music by Rolling Stone Brasil.