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Overview
- His official social pages confirmed late Thursday that he had died at 73 after a hospitalization at São Paulo's Hospital Metropolitano da Lapa, and no cause was given.
- The viewing and burial were scheduled for Friday from 12:00 to 16:30 at Cemitério da Lapa in São Paulo, according to the family’s post.
- He became a pillar of Brazil’s rock scene with Rita Lee’s band Tutti Frutti, most notably for the closing solo on Ovelha Negra and the co-written hit Agora Só Falta Você.
- He was still on the road with singer Guilherme Arantes’s 50 Anos-Luz tour, as peers such as Andreas Kisser and Andria Busic posted public tributes.
- Across five decades he recorded with Titãs, Barão Vermelho, Erasmo Carlos, and Camisa de Vênus, appeared in a 2023 career documentary, and was named by Rolling Stone Brasil among the 30 greatest Brazilian guitarists.