Daniel Menezes was born in Manaus-AM, Brazil in 1985, began playing electric bass at age 17 as a self-taught playing in the Church and in several stages of Manaus such as the Amazonas theater. After 5 years he moved to Rio de Janeiro looking for more musical experiences that he experimented playing with several renowned musicians. After 7 years he met his current Argentine wife and moved there getting to know the music of that country. He currently lives in Belgium and had the opportunity to play in renowned places and for important people such as the current King of Belgium Philippe Leopold.
Between 2014 and 2018 he composed the instrumental CD named Bella dedicated to his daughter Isabella. This CD was produced in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and includes several well-known Brazilian musicians such as: Fabio Pascual (Percussionist, son of Hermetto Pascual) Vanderlei Silva (Former percussionist of Milton Nacimiento), Luiz Otavio (Pianist of Artur Maia)
In this Video you can see him playing with MGbass: https://youtu.be/SVsraDe-0aU
Daniel plays all kinds of music, but his specialty is groove, a genre in which he stands out.
He had the opportunity to play in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Belgium, Holland
Some of the musicians and bands with whom I played and with some I continue:
In Brazil: Marko Andrade, Aldo Batera (Former drummer of Jorge Aragao), Andre Vale, Gilsinho, Dudu Lessa (current drummer of Pepeu Gomes,) Luiz Otavio (current keyboardist of the great bass player Ney Conceição ), Vanderley Silva: (currently plays with Fernanda Abreu and Milton Nascimento) Fabio Pascoal (percussionist and son of Hermeto Pascoal), Gilo Machado (percussionist who recorded with bassist Adriano Ginfonne) Orquestra de Amazonas of the students of the Claudio Santoro conservatory.