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Eron Falbo was born on 12 March 1985 in Brasília O Globo and grew up there. His great-uncle and namesake, Eron (Eronides Alves de Oliveira), left Lagarto, in the Northeast, built the Erontex retail chain in 1950s São Paulo, and founded the Hotel Eron in Brasília. No Alvo #109 · 13:48 Erontex, Wikipédia The hotel belonged to the family through his childhood, remembered on air by senator Cristovam Buarque, and was sold and renamed in 2008. No Alvo #113 · 0:26 Hotelier News On air he has described his family as Jewish, with roots he traces to Rio Frio, near Bragança in Portugal, and to the Netherlands. No Alvo #64 · 48:54 He studied at the American School of Brasília (EAB) and at the British school in São Paulo (St Paul’s), and spent part of his upbringing outside Brazil. No Alvo #84 · 29:49 LinkedIn No Alvo #86 · 50:56
"Education is knowing how to love the good... there is a good, there is such a thing as a good thing, and learning to love it, that is education." No Alvo #32 · 42:11
His first band was Os Julianos, a Brasília group that played some 300 shows aboard the transatlantic cruise ships of the Brazilian operator CVC and toured the Brazilian coast, Argentina and Uruguay before disbanding in May 2008; he performed under the stage name Heron Reign. O Globo, 2013 Os Julianos tour video, May 2008 (band credits)
He went solo as a folk musician in 2009 and took his own name. By December 2009 his debut already had Bob Johnston attached as producer, the man behind Bob Dylan's classic run, and the two were photographed working on arrangements. A Pira, Dec 2009 Jornal de Brasília later recorded that Johnston had interrupted his retirement in 2009 to take the work. Jornal de Brasília The chase itself made the O Globo feature: at a folk festival in Memphis he got the contact of Bob Johnston Jr., the producer’s son, and called for months without an answer, until one London winter day the call came back, with the father’s number attached. Johnston then talked with him for four months before agreeing to hear a single song, asking even whether he believed in God; when he finally listened, he invited Falbo to Austin, and the recording was set. O Globo, 2013
Falbo lived in London for four years. No Alvo #53 · 40:49 His manager there was Tony Calder, the English promoter of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Jornal de Brasília He took new material to Calder's office every Wednesday until, hearing "Beat the Drums", Calder phoned Universal; the meeting produced a contract for three singles and an album. No Alvo #33 · 34:12
"Beat the Drums" was released through Universal Music No Alvo #58 · 47:12 and chosen as Dermot O'Leary's "Go Buy Monday" pick on BBC Radio 2, the programme's record-to-buy slot. BBC Radio 2 Signed to Universal, he earned, in his words, "zero dollars"; the lesson sent him to study finance and Music Business at Middlesex University in London. No Alvo #77 · 41:01 No Alvo #93 · 42:37
Sessions at Konk Studios, the London studio of the Kinks' Ray Davies, produced "It'll All Be Fine" and a cover of John Lennon's "I Found Out". Konk footage, 2012 In 2012 he edited NUTsMAG, the magazine of London's New Untouchables scene, and co-produced the scene's 14th anniversary event. New Untouchables
The debut album 73 was recorded at Dark Horse Recordings in Nashville and at Konk, with a band of veteran session musicians: Paul Leim (Toto, Neil Diamond, Lionel Richie), David Hungate (Toto, Willie Nelson, Barbra Streisand), Kerry Marx (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, James Taylor) and Shane Keister (Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel). album credits, making-of It was released in 2013. In O Globo, Johnston said: "The people I choose are destined for greatness. And Eron stands out in this new generation." O Globo, 2013 The album was reviewed in Brazil and abroad; the full coverage record is on the Press page. press record Asked about the spirit of the record, he told Guitar Player Brasil: "We are not thinking about the market; we want to help the market think, if possible." Guitar Player Brasil, 2013
"If you recognize yourself before the audience does, you have a very serious problem to fix before having an audience. Because it is the audience that crowns you. The king who crowns himself is a tyrant." No Alvo #47 · 50:14
When Johnston died in August 2015, obituaries in Brazil and abroad recorded 73 as the final production of his career. SPIN, 2015 O Globo, 2015
"I asked him: how do you make a Highway 61 Revisited happen? And he said: it is very simple, I do nothing. I just put the right people together and I do not intervene. I let them go, and press record." No Alvo #27 · 53:33
He married in Rio de Janeiro on 22 November 2014, in a kosher ceremony at the Sheraton conducted by the celebrant Roberto Cohen. Adriana Colela, Nov 2014 No Alvo #8 · 0:05 One of the reasons he stepped away from the musician's career was his mother's cancer diagnosis. No Alvo #14 · 21:30 The work moved to the other side of the desk: in 2015 he founded Plectro, a São Paulo music label, and its talent-development arm Gênesis de Gênios, and produced the Imperial Tropical nights at Cabaret Uranus. Universo Retrô, 2015 Guia Folha, 2015 A 26-minute career interview was filmed at Estúdio GdG in 2016. GdG interview
In the three years before settling in Rio de Janeiro, he lived in Israel, then London again, then Hungary. No Alvo #38 · 4:28 In Budapest, he remembers, there was opera all the time. No Alvo #35 · 32:00 Other addresses have included Paris No Alvo #93 · 40:46 and in Argentina, where he drank mate every day. No Alvo #27 · 3:54 Of Jerusalem he has said: "the whole world is looking at Jerusalem. The whole world is praying toward Jerusalem." No Alvo #30 · 8:11 He is a practising Sephardi Jew. He performs the Friday blessing over wine every week No Alvo #47 · 22:30 and hosts Shabbat meals at his home. No Alvo #47 · 23:23 He studied under a rabbi of the Chassidic school, which he calls the most rigorous branch in Judaism. No Alvo #70 · 31:35 In a seminary, he studied biblical exegesis and interpretation. No Alvo #57 · 33:21
His essay "Entre Reis e Judeus" was the cover article of Menorah magazine in November 2019, and in 2020 he wrote guest columns for A Voz de Portugal. essay PDF facsimile In 2021 he was a participating author of GBG: Global Business Group, a collection on M&A in Brazil. Literare Books, 2021 The full list of his writing is on the Publications page. Publications
The marriage ended in January 2020, and for a time he lived in a hotel. No Alvo #82 · 29:23 No Alvo #67 · 18:38 That year, during the pandemic, he launched the interview podcast No Alvo com Eron Falbo, which ran to more than 100 episodes with intellectuals, politicians, and business and sports figures; O Globo listed it among the rising podcasts of Rio, Revista Quem profiled it, and on 16 January 2021 it made the cover of O Globo's Zona Sul section. O Globo, 2020 Revista Quem, 2021 O Globo, 16 Jan 2021 His father died during that period. No Alvo #77 · 18:05 All 106 interviews are online with full transcripts. episodes
"Humanity began around a campfire... It is storytelling around a campfire... something that not only unites people; it makes people what they are." No Alvo #94 · 19:34
He spent seven years working in financial markets for high-net-worth clients No Alvo #101 · 1:07:39 and took further studies at Anglia Ruskin University. LinkedIn In 2022 he became a partner in the Rio de Janeiro venue SubStation. Site RG, 2022 He was the partner responsible for the Brazilian operations of the migration platform Multipolitan, a position he later left. UOL, 2025 Projects In that role he was quoted across the financial press: in Forbes Brasil, on crypto wealth finding "new homes where innovation and regulatory clarity meet", Forbes Brasil, Apr 2025 and to Times Brasil / CNBC: "The sophisticated investor does not react to the event. He anticipates the cycle." Times Brasil, 2026
In 2025 he founded Bridge Legacy, a jurisdiction-planning and wealth consultancy for ultra-high-net-worth families; Estadão covered the launch, quoting him: "We are bringing into planning a layer that comes before the investment. Jurisdiction is the foundation of everything else." Estadão, 2026 He writes columns on wealth planning for Investing.com Brasil Investing.com, byline and is quoted in outlets such as InfoMoney. InfoMoney, 2026
In 2026 he released "Geppetto", his first new single since the album years. He has also published The Monkey Man, a children’s story, in English and Portuguese. Publications He calls himself a life-long student of belief engineering; he coined the term pistomechanics and produces a podcast and essay series about it. pistomechanics.org He lives between Dubai and São Paulo, is a father of two, No Alvo #59 · 36:38 and keeps a monthly public log of what he is doing now. Now
"Whether it exists or not does not matter. What matters is whether it works or not." No Alvo #98 · 47:22
A living document: it grows as sources are added, and every addition follows the same rule. Corrections with sources are welcome at the address in the footer. Last updated 5 August 2026.