Belchior (, born Antônio Carlos Belchior,
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Retrieved May 8, 2017 October 26, 1946 – April 30, 2017) was a Brazilian singer and composer.
He was one of the first
MPB singers from the
Brazilian northeast
The Northeast Region of Brazil ( pt, Região Nordeste do Brasil; ) is one of the five official and political regions of the country according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Of Brazil's twenty-six states, it comprises n ...
to reach mainstream success, in the early 1970s.
His 1976 album ''
Alucinação'' [] is considered by many critics to be the single most influential album in the history of
MPB, and one of the most important music albums ever published in Brazil. In 2008,
Rolling Stone Brasil named Belchior as the 100th greatest artist in Brazilian music history, and subsequently as the 58th biggest voice in Brazilian music history.
Biography
Antônio Carlos Belchior was born in
Sobral,
Ceará
Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...
,
Brazil
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on October 26, 1946.
In 1972
Elis Regina
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 2002), known professionally as Elis Regina (), was a Brazilian singer of MPB and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano.
She became national ...
recorded his composition Mucuripe (with
Fagner), which was later recorded by
Roberto Carlos.
In August 2009, the
Fantástico TV show reported that Belchior had not been seen since 2007, after leaving his car parked at the
Congonhas Airport, in
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...
. There were rumors that he had gone into hiding, engaged on the translation of
Dante
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ' ...
's ''
Divine Comedy
The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature a ...
'' into
Portuguese, a project on which he had been working for some time. According to the TV news, not even his family had heard from the singer or knew his whereabouts. On August 30, 2009, the same TV show discovered Belchior living with his second wife Edna in a small village in San Gregorio de Polanco,
Uruguay
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. In this interview, he denied having disappeared, declaring he was "resting, composing and thinking about life". In 2012, he disappeared again, alongside his wife, from a 4-star hotel in
Artigas, Uruguay
Artigas () is the capital of the Artigas Department of Uruguay. Its name comes from that of the national hero, José Gervasio Artigas, who fought for the emancipation of the River Plate, and sought to create a federative nation from these colonie ...
, leaving unpaid bills and personal objects behind. For years, not even his family was aware of his whereabouts.
He died of a
heart attack
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on April 30, 2017, at the age of 70.
,
Camilo Santana
Camilo Sobreira de Santana (born 3 June 1968) is a Brazilian agricultural engineer and politician, affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT). He has a bachelor's degree in
agricultural engineering from the Federal University of Ceará and a master ...
, declared three days of official mourning.
Discography
* 1971 – ''Na Hora do Almoço'' (Copacabana – Compacto)
* 1973 – ''Sorry, Baby'' (Copacabana – Compacto)
* 1974 – ''Mote e Glosa'' (Continental – LP)
* 1976 – ''
Alucinação'' (Polygram – LP/CD/K7)
* 1977 – ''Coração Selvagem'' (Warner – LP/CD/K7)
* 1978 – ''Todos os Sentidos'' (Warner – LP/CD/K7)
* 1979 – ''Era uma Vez um Homem e Seu Tempo'' (Warner – LP/CD/K7)
* 1980 – ''Objeto Direto'' (Warner – LP)
* 1982 – ''Paraíso'' (Warner – LP)
* 1984 – ''Cenas do Próximo Capítulo'' (Paraíso/Odeon – LP)
* 1986 – ''Um Show: 10 Anos de Sucesso'' (Continental – LP)
* 1987 – ''Melodrama'' (Polygram – LP/K7)
* 1988 – ''Elogio da Loucura'' (Polygram – LP/K7)
* 1990 – ''Projeto Fanzine'' (Polygram – LP/K7)
* 1991 – ''Divina Comédia Humana'' (MoviePlay – CD)
* 1991 – ''Acústico'' (Arlequim Discos – CD)
* 1993 – ''Baihuno'' (MoviePlay – CD)
* 1995 – ''Um Concerto Bárbaro – Acústico Ao vivo'' (Universal Music – CD)
* 1996 – ''Vício Elegante'' (Paraíso/GPA/Velas – CD)
* 1999 – ''Autorretrato'' (BMG – CD)
* 1999 – ''Alucinação''
* 2002 – ''Pessoal do Ceará'' (Continental / Warner – CD)
* 2008 – ''Sempre'' (Som Livre – CD)
References
External links
Official website*
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People from Sobral, Ceará
1946 births
2017 deaths
20th-century Brazilian male singers
20th-century Brazilian singers
Brazilian composers
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