Tenório Jr.
Francisco Tenório Júnior | |
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Francisco Tenório Júnior | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior |
| Also known as | Tenório Jr. Tenorinho |
| Born | July 4, 1940 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Died | March 1976? (age 34) Buenos Aires. Argentina |
| Genres | Bossa Nova, Jazz, Samba, MPB |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 1960–1976 |
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.