Belchior (singer)

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Belchior
Belchior performing in 2004
Background information
Birth name	Antônio Carlos Belchior[1]
Born	(1946-10-26)October 26, 1946 Sobral, Ceará, Brazil
Died	April 30, 2017(2017-04-30) (aged 70) Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Genres	MPB folk rock
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1965–2008

Belchior (Portuguese pronunciation: [bewkiˈɔɾ], born Antônio Carlos Belchior,^[1] October 26, 1946 – April 30, 2017) was a Brazilian singer and composer.^[2] He was one of the first MPB singers from the Brazilian northeast to reach mainstream success, in the early 1970s.

His 1976 album Alucinação [English: Hallucination] is considered by many critics to be the single most influential album in the history of MPB,^[3][4] 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,^[5] and subsequently as the 58th biggest voice in Brazilian music history.^[6]