Francisco Tenório Júnior

Francisco Tenório Júnior was a Brazilian musician who, despite only recording one disc under his own name, was considered one of the best pianists of his generation. He went missing in mysterious circumstances in Argentina at the time of the Dirty War.

While on tour in Argentina with Toquinho and Vinícius de Moraes in March 1976, Tenório Júnior mentioned he was going out to buy cigarettes, and is thought to have been rounded up and thrown in jail,or murdered. In 1979, Elis Regina mentioned in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo that he had been seen in jail in La Plata.[1]

Biography

Born and raised in the neighborhood of Laranjeiras , in Rio de Janeiro , it was considered one of the most important musicians of bossa nova . I used to be presented in the Lane in Rio de Janeiro . Your piano can be heard on anthological albums of Brazilian music as is Samba Novo , of Edson Machado and Vaguely of Wanda Sá .

He was 21 when he recorded his first and only album, Hot Streak , in 1964 .

He studied at the National School of Medicine , while dedicated parallel to the piano, becoming in 1970 one of the Brazilian professionals most sought after by artists.

In 1976, after a show in Buenos Aires , which accompanied the piano Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho , Tenorio Junior (or Tenorinho, as it was known) has disappeared without a trace. At first, after the disappearance was not known whether he was in any prison or dead Argentina.

At the time several versions ran, as quoted by singer Elis Regina in an interview to Folha de S.Paulo , on 3 of June of 1979 . [ 4 ] According to Elis, Tenorinho had been seen in 1977 , in a prison La Plata .

Only ten years after his disappearance, Claudio Vallejos, former corporal and member of Naval Information Service, the Secret Service of the Argentine Navy , revealed the defunct magazine Lord (n ° 270, May 1986), in Rio de Janeiro, which Tenorio Jr. had been approached on the street by a military patrol and arrested. According Vallejos, Brazilian authorities had been informed of the kidnapping and death of Tenorio Junior. Vallejos said Tenorio was imprisoned in the ESMA ( Navy Mechanics School ), clandestine apparatus of repression of the Argentine Navy that existed between 1976 and 1979 and, according to reports and complaints, was the scene of almost five thousand murders. [ 5 ]

In the book Operación Condor: Criminal Pact , launched in Mexico in 2001, the journalist Stella Calloni says Tenorio Jr. was tortured by Brazilian and Argentine officials, including Army major Souza Vieira Baptista. The story of Stella converges with the interview Claudio Vallejos published in the journal Lord , in which the former Argentine military claimed that agents SNI had been present during the execution of Tenorio Jr, which occurred nine days after his arrest. The executor would have been Alfredo Astiz , frigate former captain of the Argentine Navy, also implicated in the murder and forced disappearance of dozens of people and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for crimes against humanity . [ 5 ] [ 6 ]

Francisco Tenorio Jr. was 34 years old. He left four children and his wife, Carmen Cerqueira Magalhaes pregnant. The fifth child was born one month after his disappearance. [ 3 ]

The Torture Never Again Group confirmed that Tenorio's death took place in March 1976 in Buenos Aires. [ 7 ]

Soon after the disappearance of Tenorio Jr. filmmaker Rogerio Lima produced the short film "Balada para Tenorio," which chronicles the disappearance of Tenorio Jr. and interview their family and friends.

In 1986 when Claudio Vallejos came to Brazil and gave a revealing interview with Lord , the producer VIDECOM of São Paulo, along with Rogério Lima, he managed to record his testimony, which was used as the basis for the documentary Tenorio Jr. , which tells the tragedy occurred with the musician. Vallejos was arrested soon after the interview, as determined by the then Minister of Justice, Paulo Brossard , days after the publication of the interview. In August 1987, in a new interview with Lord , the former agent said he suffered during his brief imprisonment, threats of men in federal police and received the recommendation not to insist on references to the omission of the Brazilian embassy and the involvement of agents SNI in the death of Tenorio. [ 5 ]

The documentary had its premiere at the Film and Video Festival of Rio de Janeiro. In the same week, Claudio Vallejos was expelled from Brazil, after three months in prison, without having been subjected to a process.

In 1996, the documentary has been updated with unpublished archive images, reissued and presented by TV Cultura of São Paulo . In the film, the lawyer Luis Eduardo Greenhalgh says he believes the Tenorio Junior in prison has been arrested by mistake. [ 8 ]

According to people close to the pianist, Tenorio, although he was the son of military, he never expressed political and ideological preferences. In an interview in 2003, Toquinho guitarist said that Tenorio appearance may have contributed to his arrest. "Tenorio was a unique kind, very tall, with a beard, long hair, wore a long cloak, was mistaken for someone else." [ 5 ]

The Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba has plans to carry out another documentary feature film about the disappearance of the Brazilian pianist.

Claudio Vallejos returned to Brazil (it is assumed that around 2002) and settled in the region Chapecó in Santa Catarina. He was arrested in 2010 for embezzlement and forgery . Released some time later was again arrested for larceny in January 2012. [ 9 ] . His arrest had been requested to Interpol by the Argentine federal prosecutor who handles the criminal proceedings linked to Operation Condor (military-political alliance between the dictatorships of Argentina , Brazil , Chile and Uruguay , in the 1970s and 1980s). When the identity of Vallejos was confirmed, the prosecutor asked for his extradition to the Brazilian government. On 27 March 2013, Vallejos was delivered by Federal Police to Argentine police at the airport in Florianópolis . [ 10 ]

Discography

As leader

As accompanist

References

  1. ↑ Inforum

External links

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