Ventania - Só para loucos

Wilson da Silva, better known as Ventania (Pariqüeraçu, 21 August 1962), is a singer and wanderer whose musical inspiration comes from the hippie movement of the 60s and 70s. Ventania currently lives in São Thomé das Letras, Minas Gerais.

One of the most important musical influences of Ventania is the singer and composer Raul Seixas, the "Raulzito", historical landmark of national rock and the mixture with "alternative" influences.

Ventania was born in Pariqüeraçu, state of São Paulo, on 21 August 1962. According to the singer, his career began at the age of eight, playing piano in church.

But later, around 1980, Ventania began singing and composing, officially hitting the road. His concert life, which for the time being was summarised only in the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná, was recent, and the performances precarious. Ventania's shows, at the time, were literally "only for the crazy".

To be Ventania is to be connected to simple things like receiving a name from an angel in childhood. Wilson da Silva, an illustrious visitor to São Thomé das Letras, was given the name Ventania.

Adopting the hippie garb of the 60s was what really modulated the musical and personality structures of Ventania, who left the routine life to become a nomad, travelling the country, hitchhiking at gas stations, composing, playing, singing and enjoying life, with cannabis and hallucinogenic mushrooms as inspiration for his songs.

Although he has not declared to the media his relationship with religion and his beliefs, Ventania claims to have started his career as a singer singing in the church, but we know perfectly well that it did not influence him, because Ventania composes lyrics that the church repudiates. An unavoidable subject to study Ventania's biography.
With the song "O Diabo é Careta", one of his biggest hits, Ventania tells the story of the devil who refuses a marijuana cigarette and says he is careta, a story that reveals a little about the musician: agnosticism/liberalism, which is the lack of beliefs or absence of them.

Completely indifferent to record labels, Ventania follows his steps independently. He began composing and singing his songs in the mid-1980s, and only achieved success through the internet, with the disc "Só Para Loucos" which was released in 2009 and is the name of one of the songs, which is still the most famous, but which, in fact, is a rock version originally by the band Black Zé.