Tenório Jr.

Francisco Tenório Júnior
Francisco Tenório Júnior
Background information
Birth nameFrancisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior
Also known asTenório Jr.
Tenorinho
Born(1940-07-04)July 4, 1940
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DiedMarch 1976? (age 34)
Buenos Aires. Argentina
GenresBossa Nova, Jazz, Samba, MPB
OccupationMusician
InstrumentPiano
Years active19601976

Francisco Tenório Júnior (born July 4, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro - disappeared and presumed dead in March, 1976) was a Brazilian musician and composer. Despite recording only one album as a solo artist, he was considered one of the best pianists of his generation, and his fame as a virtuoso creator has increased over the years.

Tenório Júnior went missing under mysterious circumstances in Argentina during the first year of that country's last civil-military dictatorship: in March 1976, while on tour at Buenos Aires with Toquinho and Vinícius de Moraes, he went out one night to buy cigarettes, and he was never seen again; it was quickly surmised that he might have been rounded up by the dictatorship's security forces and kidnapped, being subsequently thrown in jail, tortured and murdered.