The funeral of singer Erasmo Carlos, who died today in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 81, will not be open to the public. According to the musicians’ team, the funeral will be limited to the artist’s family and friends.
The time and place of Erasmo’s funeral were not disclosed. For fans wishing to say goodbye, the artist’s family recommended listening to his works to make him “happier and more loved.”
The wake is closed to family and close friends. Those who want to honor him listen to his songs, his messages. Nothing would make you happier and more loved!
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“On the Musician’s Day, our beloved Erasmo Esteves said goodbye, Erasmo Carlos, the gentle giant, the Tremendão, the father of National Rock. Erasmo created, loved and accompanied each of us in the important moments of our lives. And besides all the wonders he composed and sang for decades, he left us messages: the future belongs to the young guard, and that you have to know how to live!
“Tremendão”, as he was known for his passion for rock and Elvis Presley, is survived by his wife Fernanda and three children.
Erasmo Carlos, one of the biggest names in national rock, had been hospitalized since November 2 at Barra DOr Hospital in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. He had panniculitis complicated by sepsis of cutaneous origin.
Panniculitis can result from infection, injury, and autoimmune disorders—typical symptoms include tender, red bumps under the skin. Sepsis is a disease that results from the body’s overreaction to some type of infection caused by a virus, bacteria, or fungus.
This inadequate response can lead to malfunction of one or more organs, potentially fatal if not detected and treated quickly. This infection can be bacterial, fungal, viral, parasitic, or protozoal.
Erasmo Carlos dies at the age of 81; remember your story
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Singer Erasmo Carlos died in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 81.
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He was married to Fernanda Passos, a teacher who was 49 years his junior. The two got married in 2019.
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Erasmo Carlos, known as “Tremendão”, was one of Jovem Guarda’s icons
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At that time, Erasmo Carlos formed a friendship with Roberto Carlos: both were fans of Elvis Presley, Bob Nelson, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and supported Vasco da Gama. After a quarrel, they even did not speak to each other for six months, but then they resumed their friendship.
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The musician came from Vasco da Gama: he wrote songs about the team and spoke about the heart club in his book “Minha Fama de Mau” (2008).
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In the book, Erasmo tells Carlos that it was Tim Maia who taught him the first three chords on the guitar.
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Erasmo accompanied the tours of Tim Maia and Roberto Carlos with the band The Snakes, which also featured Edson Trindade, Arlênio Lívio and José Roberto.
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Erasmo Carlos also starred: Here he appears in a scene from “Roberto Carlos and the Pink Diamond”.
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Erasmo Carlos, young, in a 1975 photo
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Most recently, in 2020, he starred alongside Larissa Manoela in Netflix’s Modo Avião.
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On November 17, he won the Latin Grammy for Best Rock or Alternative Music Album in Portuguese for the album “O Futuro Pertence À…Jovem Guarda”.
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Born Erasmo Esteves, he added Carlos to his stage name, in homage to his friend and greatest musical partner Roberto Carlos, and also to Carlos Imperial, a music producer with whom he wrote songs like the rock “Eu Quero Twist” and for whom he was personal secretary. .
With 29 studio albums released between 1965 and 2019 and five live albums, Erasmo Carlos was one of the pioneers of rock n’ roll in Brazil, a musical style he adopted from the beginning of his career and was influenced by one of his greatest idols . Elvis Presley. It was one of the songs that was hugely successful in the voice of the king of rock “Hound Dog” that brought him closer to Roberto Carlos in the 1950s.
From the partnership of Erasmo and Roberto Carlos come classics like “Minha Fama de Mau”, “It’s Necessary to Know How to Live”, “Amigo”, “Gatinha Manhosa”, “Quero Que Vai Tudo Pro Inferno”, “Se Você” . Pensa”, “Além do Horizonte” and other songs that have shaped generations.
Born in the neighborhood of Tijuca in north Rio, Erasmo Carlos lived with Tim Maia, who was part of the Tijuca gang, since childhood. It was the syndic who taught him to play the guitar. The scene appears in the 2019 biopic Minha Fama de Mau.
On his penultimate album, Amor É Isso, Erasmo Carlos released Novo Love, a posthumous partnership with Tim Maia. The song is a Portuguese version of Erasmo’s “New Love” released by Tim Maia in 1973. In an interview with the show “Conversa Com Bial” in 2018, Erasmo said that he had known the song since 1961, when Tim lived in the USA and sent the recording in a compact to his girlfriend at the time.
Before starting his solo career, Erasmo Carlos was a member of the group The Boys Of Rock, renamed The Snakes by Carlos Imperial, with Arlênio Lívio, Edson Trindade and José Roberto, China. The Snakes even backed Cauby Peixoto in the first Brazilian rock song “Rock N’ Roll Em Copacabana” in 1957.
In 1965, Erasmo Carlos finally broke out with Jovem Guarda. The program broadcast by TV Record was presented by him, Roberto Carlos and Wanderléa, creating a cultural movement of music and behavior that began with the three. This era is also detailed in the biopic of Erasmo directed by Lui Farias.
In cinema, Erasmo starred in Roberto Carlos and the Pink Diamond (1970), Roberto Carlos at 300 Kilometers Per Hour (1971), both directed by Roberto Farias, the filmmaker’s father, who would go on to make his biopic four decades later participated in Os Machões (1972), O Cavalinho Azul (1984) and Paraíso Perdido (2018). In 2020 he premiered on Netflix in the film Modo Avião, in which he plays Larissa Manoela’s grandfather. It is the most watched nonEnglish language film on the platform.
In his personal life, Erasmo Carlos suffered two major losses. Narinha, the love of his life to whom he was married for 15 years, committed suicide in 1995, four years after divorcing the singer. His middle son Alexandre died in 2014 at the age of 40 after a serious motorcycle accident.
With Narinha, Erasmo also had Gil Eduardo and Leonardo Esteves. He is survived by his two children, grandchildren and his current wife, the educator Fernanda Passos, 32 years old.