Tenório Jr.
Sign in to saveAlso known as Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior, Francisco Tenório Júnior, Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Junior, Tenorio Jr.
Brazilian musician
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1940-07-04
- Active to
- 1976-03
mpbsamba-jazz
Discography
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Francisco Tenório Júnior was a Brazilian musician who, despite only recording one disc under his own name, was considered one of the best pianists of his generation. He went missing in mysterious circumstances in Argentina at the time of the Dirty War. While on tour in Argentina with Toquinho and Vinícius de Moraes in March 1976, Tenório Júnior mentioned he was going out to buy cigarettes, and is thought to have been rounded up and thrown in jail,or murdered. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francisco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Rio de Janeiro
- Place of death
- Buenos Aires
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Genre
- bossa nova
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Francisco Tenório Júnior.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1940-07-04
- date of disappearance
- 1976-03-18
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- killed by
- Federal Government of Brazil
- manner of death
- homicide
- date of death
- 1976-03-20
- end of work period
- 1976-00-00
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