Claudio Menezes

Claudio Menezes (born Claudio Henrique de Menezes on July 2, 1963 in the town of Fortaleza, Ceara) is a Brazilian musician. One of the ten children of a left wing journalist and a teacher, he proved a young virtuoso, having learned guitar playing by himself before he was a teenager. At the age of fifteen, he was already playing professionally, in nightclubs, accompanying singers and bands in various styles in his native town. As a youngster, he was fascinated by Bossa nova