 After spending ten years with the band, Herbert released the solo album "Ê Batumarê" (1992).He recorded two others, "Santorini Blues" (1997) e "O Som do Sim" (2000), with Cássia Eller, Nana Caymmi, Sandra de Sá and Marcos Valle.Herbert married the British journalist Lucy Needham (a former BBC journalist whom he met when she came to interview him for a documentary), with whom he had three children