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Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt (born September 20, 1966) is a Portuguese-American [1] 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. [2]
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Jan 15, 2024 · Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has got lots of good memories of 2023, including bagging a UK Top 30 album with Six, his band’s first new record in 15 years, and playing the Super Bowl with Rihanna. Then there’s the stuff he’d rather forget about.
Jul 21, 2023 · “He’s the funkiest dude in the shredder family tree”: The world’s greatest guitarists explain why Nuno Bettencourt isn’t your typical guitar hero. By Richard Bienstock. published 21 July 2023.
May 5, 2023 · Nuno Bettencourt: “I told the guys, ‘I wanna go for blood on this album.’. I wanted to make it fun with the guitar... to bring joy into it, to bring passion into it”. Bettencourt takes us behind the guitar album of 2023 and admits that, 15 years ago, he might have “fixed” the Rise solo and ruined it.
Jul 21, 2022 · Nuno Bettencourt: ‘Everybody Said I Was Crazy’. The legendary guitarist and producer on creating the Atlantis Concert for Earth in Portugal and why the volcanic crater ‘had to be in the arena’....
Nuno Bettencourt was born on 20 September 1966 in Praia da Vitória, Terceira, Açores, Portugal. He is an actor and composer, known for Rock of Ages (2012), Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008). He was previously married to Suze DeMarchi.
Mar 29, 2024 · Power ballad was a derogatory term by the time funk metal band Extreme released More Than Words in 1991. A well-deserved pat on the back, then, for guitarist Nuno Bettencourt who dropped the ‘power’ bit and in the process turned a generation of guitarists onto the noble art of fingerpicking on acoustic guitar.
2 days ago · Nuno Bettencourt has been the lead guitarist and songwriter for the band Extreme for four decades. (Jaime Ballesteros) It shouldn't come as a surprise that if you want to play a truly great guitar ...
In the 38 years since Nuno Bettencourt first rocketed into our collective consciousness, he's been referred to as "generational," "the MVP of guitar," and most recently, "the man who's carrying the torch for rock as we know it." It's all true, of course.
