Max Cavalera
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Brazilian guitarist and vocalist
OverviewAI-generated
Max Cavalera is a Brazilian male musician who began his professional career in 1984. He is associated with the rock and thrash metal genres. His musical output has been cataloged with five works, and he is the author of the book *My Bloody Roots : From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond*.
Born on August 4, 1969, Cavalera is a person recognized in music databases. His work is tagged with descriptors including "brazilian" and "Cavalera." The subject is referenced by 245 other encyclopedia articles, and his music has accumulated 8,028 plays from 2,181 listeners.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Also known as
- Max Possessed
- Born
- Massimiliano Antonio Cavalera , ( 1969-08-04 ) 4 August 1969 (age 56) , Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais , Brazil
- Genres
- Thrash metal death metal groove metal nu metal
- Occupations
- Musician singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar
- Years active
- 1984–present
- Member of
- Soulfly Cavalera Conspiracy Nailbomb Killer Be Killed Metal All Stars Go Ahead and Die
- Formerly of
- Sepultura Roadrunner United Guerrilha
- Website
- cavaleraconspiracy .net
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Antonio
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Belo Horizonte
- Child
- Zyon Cavalera
- Sibling
- Igor Pablo Cavalera
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Genre
- thrash metal
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Soulfly With Full Force 2018 03 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
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- Commons category
- Max Cavalera
- date of birth
- 1969-08-04
- member of
- Killer Be Killed
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- birth name
- Massimiliano Antonio Cavalera
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Encyclopedic overview
Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera ( Brazilian Portuguese: [masimiliˈɐnu ɐ̃ˈtoni.u kavaˈleɾɐ, - ɐ̃ˈtonju -]; born 4 August 1969) is a Brazilian-American musician. He co-founded the heavy metal band Sepultura in 1984 with his brother Igor Cavalera, and was the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist until his departure in 1997. He currently plays in the heavy metal bands Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, Nailbomb, Killer Be Killed and Go Ahead and Die.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Max Cavalera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.