Pato Fu is a brazilian band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The band is composed by Fernanda Takai (leader, vocalist and guitars; direct descendent of Japanese), John (guitars and keyboards), Ricardo Koctus (bass) and Xande Tamietti (drums).

Their first album, "Rotomusic de Liquidificapum", was released in 1993. After this first album, they released other six: "Gol de Quem?", "Tem Mas Acabou", "Televisão de Cachorro", "Isopor", "Ruído Rosa" and "MTV ao Vivo".

The band started to make sucess altogether with another two famous bands from Belo Horizonte, Jota Quest and Skank. The band plays in pop-rock style, but using together lots of techno and programming devices. Tecnically, the band is a successor of "Os Mutantes", a very famous brazilian band.

Pato Fu was elected in 2000 one of the best bands of the world by Time Magazine, with the album "Ruído Rosa". The band made its 10th birthday of success in 2003 with the release of "MTV ao Vivo", with the most famous songs of the band. Actually, the most well-known songs of the band are:

• "Eu" (Ruído Rosa)
• "Made in Japan" (Isopor; the song is almost entirely in Japanese, was written in Portuguese by John and translated in Japanese by a Japanese teacher)
• "Por Perto" (MTV ao Vivo)
• "Não Mais" (MTV ao Vivo)
• "Depois" (Isopor)
• "Canção pra Você Viver Mais" (Televisão de Cachorro)
• "Um Dia, Um Ladrão" (Televisão de Cachorro)
• "Imperfeito" (Isopor)
• "Perdendo Dentes" (Isopor)
• "Menti Pra Você, Mas Foi Sem Querer" (Ruído Rosa)
• "Ando Meio Desligado" (Ruído Rosa)
• "Rotomusic de Liquidificapum" (Rotomusic de Liquidificapum)

Fernanda Takai and John are married and they have a daughter who is called Nina, born in 2003.

The band name derives from a Garfield comic strip. Garfield attacked the mailman with his "Cat Fu" techiques. The band thought this was a nice name, but decided to change from cat to duck, which in portuguese is "pato".

External links

• Official site of the band (in portuguese)