Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva

(Portugal, 1977) is a musician and illustrator. He took piano lessons, studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy and eventually preferred the bass guitar. He uses it in combination with a bow, samples and electronic effects. Bruno has performed solo and with many bands and artists at home and abroad. He has collaborated with artists such as Elliott Sharp, Pierre Bastien, Jack Parow, DJ Grazzhoppa's Big Band, Akira Sakata, Kato Hideki, Niti Ranjan Biswas and Oene Van Geel. In 2011, he won the Jur Neasens Music Prize audience award with his band Ventriloquism. He played at the Lowlands festival, was the opening act for Tricky and Bush in Rotterdam and toured the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Japan.