Rubel (Rubel Brisolla, born 1991 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro) is a
Brazilian singer-songwriter, screenwriter, and director who emerged in the 2010s
with an intimate MPB voice-and-guitar approach before steadily widening his
palette. After moving to Rio de Janeiro as a child, he played in the band A
Corleones during his teens and later studied cinema at PUC-Rio, a background
that fed into the strongly visual framing of his later album eras. He broke
through with the early album Pearl (2013), which established his confessional
songwriting and introduced signature songs such as...