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Casa do Mancha, São Paulo, 2012, by Thalita Aguiar

Hello! Bonifrate is a modern bard from Paraty, Brazil. He also sang and played guitar with brazilian psychedelic bands Supercordas, Digital Ameríndio & American Bigfoot Mouse Mouse Joe and Simplício Neto & Os Nefelibatas.

You can listen to the music at our Bandcamp Page, or simply click the album covers on your right.

You can watch the videos at the Bonifrate Youtube Channel.

You can also scroll down and read the biography or contact Bonifrate through the form below.

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Born Pedro Campos Franke in Rio de Janeiro in 1981 and settled in Paraty (RJ) since 1985, I learned the love of music from family records, films and tapes on a Walkman. In the mid-90s I started experimenting with recordings and creating albums, half real, half imaginary, without practical references or teachers.

I moved to Rio at the turn of the millennium. Graduated in History while hanging out with the indie rock crowd and forming the band Supercordas. I recorded three albums and played with the band in all five regions of Brazil between 2003 and 2016, but the home recordings I produced as Bonifrate kept happening. The project became more consistent in 2011, when I recorded and toured with the album “Um Futuro Inteiro”.

I returned to live in Paraty in 2012 and since then I’ve been working as a technician in a historical museum, taking care of my family and home and continuing to produce home recorded albums such as Corisco (2021), Museu de Arte Moderna (2014) and Mundo Encoberto (2019).

In recent years, I have also collaborated with artists such as Boogarins, Betina, Marcelo Callado and Wry.