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Skylab II counted with a guest appearance by Löis Lancaster, vocalist of avant-garde group Zumbi do Mato – Lancaster would return for Skylab's second live album, Skylab IX, which also had guest appearances by Maurício Pereira (of Os Mulheres Negras) and Marcelo Birck (of Graforreia Xilarmônica). His third album, Skylab II, was his first live release commenting about it, he has stated that 'this is 100% Skylab.

It was produced by Robertinho do Recife, but Skylab was slightly unsatisfied with the final result, saying that it had 'too much keyboards' and that he was not too creatively involved with it.

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In 1999 he released his second album, the first one in a series of ten self-titled albums, Skylab. Rogério used the prize money to finance the recording of his debut album, Fora da Grei, which was released the following year it was very well-received by the critics, and awarded him many appearances on Jô Soares' late-night talk shows Jô Soares Onze e Meia and Programa do Jô in the 1990s and 2000s. After a brief stint as the vocalist of punk rock band Setembro Negro in the mid- to late 1980s, in 1991 he participated as a solo artist in a music festival in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais he won the first-place cash prize with the song 'Samba do Skylab', from which he took his stage name. Prior to his musical career, Skylab worked for 28 years as a public servant at a Banco do Brasil agency in Maracaju, Mato Grosso do Sul. He has degrees in literature and philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and also began attending a law course, but never finished it. Rogério Skylab was born Rogério Tolomei Teixeira in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 2, 1956, and is of Italian and Portuguese descent.

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