São Paulo, March 29, 2018 - More than 1,500 national rock and pop bands have signed up for the third edition of EDP Live Bands Brazil. In the first round of voting, which goes on until next Sunday (1/04), the public can vote for their favorite band on the website edplivebandsbrasil.edp.com/votacoes and choose who will go on to the semifinal.

As in previous years, on the contest portal, which is interactive and connected to Facebook, the original songs and videos are available of the participating bands so that fans can choose 10 of the 36 semifinalists. The others will be selected by a committee of specialists, taking into consideration criteria such as originality, technical and musical quality.

The nominees will be released on April 4, when the second stage of voting begins. In all, eight bands will reach the grand finale, of which three will be chosen by online voting and five by the commission of the competition. The finalists will perform live on May 12, for the jury responsible for nominating the winners.

The prize for the big winner is the recording of an album for Sony Music and the group will take part in the NOS Alive"18 festival, one of the biggest music festivals in Europe, which already has the confirmation of bands like Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age and Pearl Jam. "With the trip that the contest offered us for participating in NOS Alive, we had the opportunity to experience a very large cultural exchange and get to know different bands of different nationalities, besides sharing the stage with musicians who are a reference point for us ", says Lucas Varisco, member of Gelpi, the winning band in 2017.

EDP Live Bands Brasil is the result of a partnership between EDP, a company which operates in all segments of the electricity sector in Brazil, with Everything is New and Sony Music, and with the institutional support of the magazine Lounge. World-wide success, the competition, which has already received the registrations of 4200 bands, has been held in Portugal since 2014, arriving this year at its fifth edition. In Spain, the contest is held for the first time.

From Brasil to the world

In 2016, EDP Live Bands Brasil consecrated the maranhenses of Soulvenir, composed by musicians Marlon Silva, Adnon Soares, Domingos Thiago, Wilson Jr. and Sandoval Filho. The band was chosen from among more than 1,300 registered and, through the awards, released the album "Uterearth " in 2017.

Last year, the winners were the gauchos of the Gelpi, a band of Folk and Blues Rock formed by brothers Bolivar, Pedro and Laura Gelpi; Erik Banach Feller, Fernando Pellegrini and Lucas Alcade Varisco. Among more than 1,600 participants, the musicians from Rio Grande do Sul stood out for their originality and are currently in the process of recording with Sony Music.

Schedule:

DATE STAGE

01/04 End of first round of voting  04/04  Revelation of the semi-finalists and the beginning of the second voting phase 20/04 End of second round of voting 23/04 Announcement of the finalists 12/05  Grand Final and Live Concert 12, 13, 14/07  Festival NOS Alive"18

For more information, contact the channels:

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Email ** edplivebands@edpbr.com.br

About EDP

With more than 20 years of experience, EDP is one of the five largest private companies in the electricity sector operating throughout all the value chain. The Company, which employs more than 10,000 direct and outsourced employees, has 15 hydroelectric generation units and one thermoelectric power plant, and serves around 3.3 million customers with its distributors in São Paulo and Espírito Santo, in addition to acting on Transmission, Marketing and Energy Solutions. In Brazil it is a reference point in areas such as Governance and Sustainability, being for 12 consecutive years in the B3 Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE). Recently, it has stood out as a pioneer in the use of robotization of processes and acquired a stake in Celesc, in Santa Catarina. It has a market value of about R$ 9 billion, three times more than in 2005, when it opened its share capital.