Нуно Беттенкур: Португалиялық гитарист және музыкалық мансабы

Portuguese guitarist

Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt (born September 20, 1966) is a Portuguese American guitarist. He became known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme. Bettencourt has recorded a solo album and has founded rock bands including Mourning Widows, DramaGods, and Satellite Party.

Bettencourt was born on September 20, 1966, in Praia da Vitória, Terceira, Azores, Portugal. Bettencourt rose to fame as a guitarist for the Boston area group Extreme, which he joined in 1985. The band released its debut record, Extreme, in 1989. The final track on the album, "Play with Me", was used as the "mall chase" song in the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. In 1990, Extreme released its next album, Pornograffitti, which included the hits "More Than Words" and "Hole Hearted". The acoustic ballad "More Than Words" entered the Hot 100 on March 23, 1991, at No. 81. It later became a huge smash, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Pornograffitti garnered admiration for Bettencourt from rock guitar enthusiasts. He was voted "Best New Talent" in a 1991 readers' poll by Guitar World magazine, and that magazine later named him "Most Valuable Player" of 1991. Queen guitarist Brian May has called Bettencourt's solo from the song "Get the Funk Out" "a landmark in rock history that I think should have its own little medal struck and awarded to Nuno Bettencourt and Extreme." The band followed up with III Sides to Every Story in 1992. The album featured brass and string sections, as well as a full orchestra, whose parts were composed and arranged by Bettencourt. In 1995, Extreme released the album Waiting for the Punchline, but the band broke up in 1996 when Bettencourt decided to pursue a solo career.

In 2016, Bettencourt founded media production company Atlantis Entertainment (of which he is CEO) with Rene Rigal and Steven Schuurman.

Bettencourt married Australian singer Suze DeMarchi in 1994. They have two children together, actress Bebe Bettencourt (born in 1996) and Lorenzo Aureolino Bettencourt (born in 2002). The couple divorced in 2013. Bettencourt remarried in 2022 to dancer Christina Chandler, and they had a child together in 2021.