Psirico

Psirico is a pagode baiano band from Salvador, Bahia, formed in 2000 and led by singer-songwriter Márcio Victor, whose call-and-response style and high-energy percussion helped define the group’s carnival-ready sound. After building a local following in the early 2000s, Psirico moved into national visibility with albums such as MPB – Makumba Popular Brasileira (2006) and Orquestra de Panela (2006), then kept refining its mix of pagode, samba-reggae, and axé-era swing across the 2010s. The project’s biggest mainstream breakthrough arrived with the 2014 hit “Lepo Lepo,” a song that became one of the decade’s most recognizable Brazilian party anthems and pushed Psirico far beyond Bahia’s circuit. Later releases like #Épsi (2019) captured the band’s stadium-style arrangements and street-party punch, while Márcio Victor continued to front Psirico as a prominent carnival presence in Salvador. In the mid-2020s, Psirico stayed active with new singles aimed at the summer-season calendar, including “Música do Carnaval” (2024) and the 2025 collaboration “CARNAVAL” with Marina Sena.

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