I came to know about him by a brother of mine when I was around my 12~13 years old, on that time I already enjoyed listening to metal and it was the first time I knew about a brazilian metal band. This important man is Andre Matos, an amazing musician and his current band was Angra. Things happened and he left the band, which obviously made me sad, then he formed a new one named Shaman, their first song I heard was 'For Tomorrow', I loved its unique instrumental composition immediately and it became the one I like most from them! I could happily go to their first album 'Ritual' release concert, watch For Tomorrow and 'Carry On', the best known Angra song which we even use to joke it is our true national anthem
He was only 47 years old and it will hurt me forever also for some other reasons. I make tributes to people I admire and love when they are still alive, I made one singing for him in 2016 with Shaman King songs for fun and transformed a scene of Hao into an album cover format with the song 'Time Will Come' for its lyrics is strongly totally Hao talking to Yoh!