The Mad Bull Country Band history begin in 1997, when Paco Abujamra and an old friend decided to gather some guys up to form a band and have some fun. In the first few months, the band rehearsed a lot and played very little, until April of 1998, when it begin to be taken more seriously and play out all over Brazil...

But lets go to the facts:

In 1992, Paco Abujamra left Brazil destined to the United States, more precisely to live in Oklahoma City - OK at first, and then Fort Worth, neighboring city of Dallas - TX, where he would study English and agriculture. A country music lover since he was a boy, took advantage of his free time to learn how to play the guitar and sing, even winning an contest interpreting "If Tomorrow Never Comes", by Garth Brooks. Fan of Elvis Presley, went to Tennessee, where he visited Graceland, in Memphis - TN, where Elvis is buried, and Nashville, the cradle of the country music.

Back to Brazil, after founding Mad Bull Country Band, many rehearsals took place, musicians came and went originating several band formations and a lot of experience for the ones whose persisted and stayed. On April 28, 1998, Paco Abujamra (acoustic guitar and voice), along with the guitar player Alex Nunes, decided to give Mad Bull Country Band a new chance.

Along with some professional musicians, the band would go on to the road and make a long series of shows and some of the most famous compositions of the band, bringing to the Brazilian public the best of the American country music, interpreting it in a very particular way, besides of its own compositions in Portuguese, where the personality of the band leaves its marks wherever it goes through. An example of that is the song "Isso é Barretos" (This is Barretos), especially composed in 1999 for the largest rodeo event in Brazil and the secong largest of the globe, "Barretos Rodeo", where it was considered to be the official song of the event and it was among the more asked and more played song in all of the radio stations that were participating and promoting the event as well.

That is the Mad Bull Country Band history, a band that came to entertain and make people happy, that has pleasure in doing what it does and that believes that work, tenacity and honesty can make dreams become reality, therefore, came to stay!