 The prominent figures of the movement - Assumpção, Barnabé, Grupo Rumo, Premê (Premeditando o Breque), Le Dantas Cordeiro and others - soon earned the nickname of "Damned", with the reason behind this title unclear at the present time (it may have had to do with the reduced financial potential of their musical output due to their position outside of the Brazilian music industry, an observation that gained substance when the movement eventually dismantled due, in part, to a lack of commercial success).For the popular media, the work of the "Vanguarda" artists was labeled as "difficult" and "inaccessible".His first piece of recorded music was the 1980 independent album, "Beleléu Leléu Eu" and eight years following this release he was to record what would be his only ever record with a major music company, "Intercontinental!