The Man Behind

Alien Commander guitarist Setun Shenar and his incredible Light Guitar, is the work of guitarist and music producer Beto Lefevre. 

Graduated from the Los Angeles College Of Music, he is responsible for the musical and artistic production of Ultra Aliens, alongside Mack Alien.

He started as a sub guitarist for Olmir Stocker in the late 1980s The Gallery Big Band.

In the 1990s he worked with artists who were emerging at the time, such as Zeca Baleiro, Rita Ribeiro, Laura Finocchiaro, André Frateschi, Edgard Scandurra, and others. At the same time, I had private classical piano lessons with the concert artist Clarice Leite(mother of the brothers Arnaldo and Sérgio Baptista dos Mutantes)

In the 2000s he built his own studio to produce his first solo album.

In the 2010s he had the opportunity to deepen his knowledge in music and production with great masters of the International Music Industry, such as Jody Fisher(John Williams,Mike Stern), Bill Fowler(Ray Charles,Johnny Halliday), Ken Song(Gregg Bissonette, John Ferraro), Andre Knecht(Warner Bros. Records), Andrew Murdoch(Alice Cooper, Linkin Park), Mark Browne(George Michael,Sheryl Crow,Billy Idol,Chaka Khan,Cindy Lauper) when he lived in Pasadena-Ca to attend Los Angeles College Of Music.

biography

Born in the late 1960s, he grew up in an environment always surrounded by good music. His father was a Jazz lover, and used to electrify his own guitar using a pickup he made himself. His uncles, Sergio Dias and Arnaldo Baptista, were the pioneers of Rock and Roll in Brazil alongside singer Rita Lee through Mutantes.

1989: First work as a professional musician, replacing the great guitarist Olmir Stockler (German) in Gallery Big Band, the big band from Gallery dos Jardins (traditional neighborhood of São Paulo); He is also part of the initial formation of Banda Savana do Maestro Branco.

1994: Join the band Mandabala by the singer from Maranhão, recently arrived in SP, Zeca Baleiro

1997-2000: He records with Zeca Baleiro the albums “Por Onde Andará Stephen Fry?” and “Vô Imbolá” for MZA-PolyGram, the latter being nominated for a Latin Grammy; tours with Baleiro throughout Brazil, as well as Portugal and Spain.

2008 : Starts working with Mack Alien, producing and recording his songs

2014-2015 : After traveling to Juiz de Fora-MG, where he received a blessing from his uncle and idol Arnaldo Baptista, he went to the USA and spent a year and a half in Pasadena-CA, where he interacted with big names in the international music industry, graduating in Music Producing. and Recording from the Los Angeles College of Music (LACM)

 

 

 

 

 

2015: Returns to São Paulo to resume old musical projects

2019: Performs the first shows of Setun Shenar and his Guitarra-Luz