Arto Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist and singer.

Lindsay was born in the USA, but spent many years in Brazil with his missionary parents.

He formed the no wave group DNA (not to be confused with the DNA who remixed Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner"), and played with the Lounge Lizards and the Golden Palominos. Later, he and Peter Scherer joined to form the Ambitious Lovers , putting out three albums: Greed, Envy, and Lust. These albums blended Scherer's keyboards with Lindsay's Brazilian music influences and distinctive, noisy guitar playing.

Lindsay went on to a solo career which was significantly more oriented toward his Brazilian roots, singing in Portuguese more frequently, throwing in occasional covers of bossa nova classics like João Gilberto's "Este Seu Olhar", and updating his sound from 1980s new wave to more current types of electronica on albums such as O Corpo Sutil (The Subtle Body) (1996), Mundo Civilizado (1997), Noon Chill (1998), Prize (1999), Invoke (2002), and Salt (2004).

He has appeared in tie-ins with other artists, such as a cameo appearance in the Madonna vehicle Desperately Seeking Susan and playing "skronk" guitar in the song "Hearing Aid" on They Might Be Giants's Flood.

He has produced recordings by Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso, Vinicius Cantuária , Gal Costa , Carlinhos Brown, and Marisa Monte.

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