Cabine C was formed in 1984 by
Ciro Pessoa, who had parted ways with his previous band,
Titãs, the year prior. Its initial line-up comprised Pessoa on vocals, his then-wife Wania Forghieri on keyboards,
Edgard Scandurra of
Ira! on guitar,
Charles Gavin (who had just joined Titãs) on drums and Sandra Coutinho of
Mercenárias on bass (Sandra later left the band and was replaced by Ricardo Gaspa, also from Ira!). They recorded some songs with this line-up, and performed some shows in bars and clubhouses of
São Paulo, but with the exception of Pessoa and Forghieri, everybody would leave the band afterwards, in order to focus on their respective alternate projects. In 1986, former
Akira S. e as Garotas que Erraram members Anna Ruth dos Santos and Marinella Setti joined Cabine C, and with this line-up they would release in the same year their first (and only) studio album,
Fósforos de Oxford, through RPM Discos, so called because it was founded by
RPM members
Paulo Ricardo and
Luiz Schiavon. The album, which counted with guest appearances by
Fernando Deluqui and Akira Tsukimoto (the titular "Akira S." of Akira S. e as Garotas que Erraram), was well-received, but suffered from bad promotion, resulting that most people didn't even know it existed, and so it was a commercial failure. Because of that, a lengthy judicial battle between Cabine C and RPM Discos ensued then, resulting in the end of both Cabine C and RPM Discos in 1987. Prior to their disbanding, Cabine C was working on a second studio album, which would be called
Cotonetes Desconexos; however, the project did not come to fruition. Their song "Tão Perto" ("So Close") is present in the compilation of Brazilian underground post-punk music
The Sexual Life of the Savages, released in 2005 by British label
Soul Jazz Records. In 2017, Pessoa wrote a song in tribute to Cabine C entitled "Cabine C/Na Primavera", for the self-titled debut album of his latest project Flying Chair. He died on May 5, 2020, following complications from a cancer and
COVID-19. ==Members==