Paulo Alexandre Nogueira Salgado Martins, better known by his stage name Salgadinho (born 10 January 1970), is a Brazilian

pagode Pagode () is a Brazilian style of music that originated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a subgenre of Samba. Pagode originally meant a celebration with food, music, dance, and party. In 1978, singer Beth Carvalho was introduced to this music, like ...

and

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singer and composer. He is most well known for being a member of the pagode group

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Biography

Salgadinho was born in 1970 in

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. He began his musical career as a

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player for Katinguelê, of which he became its main singer and composer during the 1990s, when the group reached its peak in popularity. As part of the group, he composed some of the biggest hits in pagode during the 1990s, such as "No compasso do criador", "Inaraí", "Recado a Minha Amada", "Um Doce Sabor", "Cilada", "Corpo Lúcido", and "Pra gente matar a saudade", among others. He also hosted, along with Netinho de Paula and Kelly Key, the program ''Samba, Pagode, & Cia.'' on

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, which stayed on the air for only two months in 1999. In 2001, Salgadinho left Katinguelê to dedicate his time to his solo career. He returned to his old group for a brief period starting in 2008, but left again in 2010 and returned to his solo projects. He has also been a member of the musical project Amigos do Pagode 90 since 2014, together with other famous names in the pagode scene during the 90s, such as , Chrigor, and Netinho de Paula. On 26 April 2019, he released the single "Sol e sal", with Ferrugem as a guest singer. In 2020, he released the EP ''“Salgadinho Experience”''. The same year, he launched the online course "Academia do Cavaquinho", where he teaches the technical aspect of playing the cavaquinho to both beginners and experienced musicians.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salgadinho 1970 births Living people Afro-Brazilian male singers Singers from São Paulo Pagode musicians Samba musicians 20th-century Brazilian composers 21st-century Brazilian composers