Francisco Tenório Júnior
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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
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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. In 1979, Elis Regina
mentioned in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that he had been seen in jail in La Plata.
Dirty War
The Dirty War was a period of state-sponsored violence in Argentina from 1976 until 1983. Victims of the violence included several thousand left-wing activists, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers, either proved or suspected...
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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. In 1979, Elis Regina
Elis Regina
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing Arrastão in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record...
mentioned in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that he had been seen in jail in La Plata.
As accompanist
- ...E Samba Novo (1963), accompanying Edison Machado
- O LP (1964), with Os Cobras
- Vagamente (1964), accompanying Wanda SáWanda SáWanda Sá is a Brazilian bossa nova singer and guitarist, active from 1964 to the present day.Her first guitar teacher, when she was 13, was Roberto Menescal. Later, she worked with Sérgio Mendes in his group Brasil '65, and also with Marcos Valle and Kátya Chamma...
- Doris Monteiro (1964), accompanying Doris Monteiro
- India (1973), accompanying Gal Costa
- Beto Guedes - Danilo Caymmi - Novelli - Toninho Horta (1973), accompanying the eponymous musicians
- Missa Breve (1973), accompanying Edu Lobo
- Egberto Gismonti (1973), accompanying Egberto Gismonti
- Academia de Danças (1974), accompanying Egberto Gismonti
- Nós (1974), accompanying Johnny Alf
- Bossa Nova nos "States" (1962), accompanying Juarez Araújo
- A Arte Maior de Leny Andrade (1964), accompanying Leny Andrade
- Minas (1975), accompanying Milton Nascimento
- Nana Caymmi (1975), accompanying Nana Caymmi
- Samba Nova Concepção (1964), (Various Artists)
- Desenhos (1966), accompanying Victor Assis Brasil