Van Soria was born in
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul on October 5, 1969. His first musical ventures were with rock band
TNT, founded in 1984 by childhood friends
Flávio Basso, Charles Master, Márcio Petracco, and Felipe Jotz. In 1985 TNT took part in the critically acclaimed compilation
Rock Grande do Sul, released by
RCA Records; however, Basso and Van Soria were unhappy with RCA, citing numerous creative divergences between them and the label, and so they left TNT to form their own project,
Os Cascavelletes, in 1987. Van Soria began his solo career shortly after Os Cascavelletes broke up, in 1992. He traveled to
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, where he began recording his debut album,
Avalon, released in 1995 by Antídoto. In 1998 he released his second album,
Jardim Inglês, through Paradoxx Music; it counted with a guest appearance by
Nenhum de Nós vocalist
Thedy Corrêa. The music video for the album's title track was shot in England. In 2001 Van Soria founded his own record label, Good Music Records; its first release was the album
Cidade Grande, in which he is accompanied by
side project Os Invertebrados, composed of his former Os Cascavelletes bandmate Luciano Albo and Juliano Pereira. In 2003 he released his third solo album (and fourth release overall),
O Dia + Feliz da Minha Vida. 2005 saw the release of Van Soria's first live album,
Só, recorded two years prior at a gig at the Teatro Renascença in Porto Alegre. In 2007 he released the double-disc album
Mundo Perfeito. In 2009 Van Soria celebrated his 40th birthday with a show at the
Bar Ocidente, accompanied by Flávio Basso; a DVD of the performance came out soon after. It was Van Soria's first video album. In 2012 he released
Um Cara Comum, which counted with guest appearances by
Herbert Vianna,
Charly García and
Dado Villa-Lobos, and toured around Porto Alegre and Curitiba in a series of critically acclaimed shows to promote the album. In 2015 he released his eighth album,
RockLuv, which he described as "a traditional album without tricks or eclecticism". On July 4, 2016, Van Soria teamed up with his former Os Cascavelletes friends Humberto Petinelli, Alexandre Barea and
Frank Jorge to record "Balada para Flávio", a song in tribute to Flávio Basso, who died in December of the previous year. His most recent release,
Neblina, came out in 2017. The track "Homem de Pouca Fé" was released in advance on Van Soria's official YouTube channel on March 5. Later that year he released music videos for new songs "Telescópio" (which counted with a guest appearance by rock band
Papas da Língua and was co-written by the band's vocalist Léo Hankin) and "Sol" (co-written by
Armandinho). ==Personal life==