Nuno Bettencourt
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt |
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September 20, 1966 Praia da Vitória, Terceira, Azores, Portugal |
| Genres | Glam metal, hard rock, funk metal, heavy metal, alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards, piano, organ, cello, drums |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels | Warner Bros. |
| Associated acts | Extreme, The Satellite Party, DramaGods Population 1, Mourning Widows, Rihanna, Steel Panther, Guitar Wars, Dweezil Zappa, Alter Bridge, Luís Gil Bettencourt, Janet Jackson |
| Website | nunobettencourt |
| Notable instruments | |
| Washburn N-Series Guitar | |
Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt (born September 20, 1966) is a Portuguese guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme.
He has since recorded a solo project called Schizophonic as well as with bands he founded including Mourning Widows, Population 1, DramaGods, The Satellite Party (headed by Jane's Addiction's then-former frontman and Lollapalooza co-founder Perry Farrell), and then reunited with Extreme to record new music and tour.
Washburn Guitars sells a line of Nuno Bettencourt custom guitars.
Bettencourt was born on September 20, 1966 in Praia da Vitória, Terceira, Azores, Portugal, to Ezequiel Mendes Bettencourt and wife Aureolina da Cunha Gil de Ávila. When he was four years old, his family, including brothers Luís and Roberto, moved to Hudson, Massachusetts. Bettencourt lived on Main Street in Hudson for twenty-one years. Initially, Bettencourt had little interest in music, preferring to spend his time playing hockey and soccer. His first instrument was the drums and he played them exclusively until his brother, Luís, started teaching him the guitar.
While Bettencourt was slow to adopt the instrument under his brother's tutelage, his skills quickly developed when he began teaching himself, and he has mentioned in many interviews that he would skip many school days to practice upwards of seven hours a day. In his sophomore and junior years of high school, Bettencourt dropped out of sports so he could focus on playing guitar. He eventually dropped out of high school altogether, for the same reason.
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