Artist: Nuno Bettencourt
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Best Of Nuno
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Guitar virtuoso Nuno Bettencourt made his describe with the eclectic pop-metal outfit Extreme during the tiptop of the guitar-shredder era, and embarked on a solo career after the band's breakup. As a soloist, Bettencourt's most immediately recognizable influence was Eddie Van Halen, only as a ballad maker, he mightiness draw from Queen, the Beatles, Prince, and anything in between. The youngest of ten-spot children in a musical mob, Bettencourt was innate Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt in the townsfolk of Praia da Vitoria, on the island of Terceira in the Azores (an archipelago governed by Portugal) on September 20, 1966. His family stirred to Boston when he was four-spot and he began playing music as a adolescent, trying out drums, sea bass, and keyboards, just settling on guitar. Bettencourt played in several area bands, sometimes with his brothers, and joined Extreme in 1985; after comme il faut quite a popular topically, the radical signed with A&M and released their debut album in 1989. Three more albums followed, asset a number one pop single in the acoustic ballad "More Than Words," before the band called it quits in 1996. In addition, Bettencourt produced and guested on the second album by Australian operose rockers Baby Animals in 1993; the undermentioned year, he marital the group's principal vocalist, Suze DeMarchi.
Bettencourt had been rumored to take in a solo project in the full treatment for some time, and after Extreme's death, he threw himself into the idea in businesslike. In fact, he played all the instruments on his 1997 solo debut, Schizophonic (released by longtime label A&M). While the record album did take the alternative stone revolution into account, it failed to sell very comfortably; feeling constrained, Bettencourt left hand A&M and in 1998 put together a permanent mount unit featuring nephew Donovan Bettencourt (who'd played on the encouraging enlistment for Schizophonic) on bass and late Extreme bandmate Mike Mangini on drums. Mangini didn't stay long, however, and was replaced by Jeff Consi in January 1999. Bettencourt dubbed the group the Mourning Widows, and they signed with Polydor's Japanese variance; their debut, Mourning Widows, was released overseas in 1998, blend surd stone and funk-rock with bits of alternative and psychedelia. The followup, Furnished Souls for Rent, was released in 2000. Bettencourt took 2 age to follow up Furnished Souls for Rent with a ego highborn debut from his new grouping, Population One.
