Reginaldo Rossi

Reginaldo Rossi
Reginaldo Rossi on 26 June 2010 on the Castro Alves Square
Background information
Birth name	Reginaldo Rodrigues dos Santos
Born	(1944-02-14)February 14, 1944 Recife,  Brazil
Origin	Recife
Died	December 20, 2013(2013-12-20) (aged 69)
Genres	Brega, Rock
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	1964–2013
Labels	EMI

Reginaldo Rodrigues dos Santos (14 February 1944 – 20 December 2013), better known by his stage name Reginaldo Rossi, was a Brazilian musician and singer-songwriter. He was known as the "King of Brega" (Portuguese: "Rei do brega").

On 9 November 2013, he went through a surgical procedure called thoracentesis removing 2 liters of accumulated fluids between the pleura and the lung. The biopsy revealed on the 11th of the same month the confirmation of lung cancer. Reginaldo Rossi died on 20 December 2013, aged 69, in his hometown of Recife, Pernambuco.