Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento is, to my ears, one of the most spiritually generous voices in all of Brazilian music. That soaring falsetto and the Clube da Esquina sound out of Minas Gerais reshaped MPB entirely, blending jazz, folk and something almost devotional. Wayne Shorter and Pat Metheny didn't seek him out by accident. Five Grammys and a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement only sketch the influence. He's Brazilian, born in Rio in 1942 and raised in Minas. I never tire of Travessia or Maria, Maria. A true giant whose music feels bigger than borders.

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Name (English)

Milton Nascimento

Name (Japanese)

ミルトン・ナシメント

Reading

みるとん・なしめんと

Born

October 26, 1942 (age 84)

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Occupation

singer / composer / guitarist / recording artist / pianist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

Awards & achievements

• Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
• 2012 Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• Brazilian Music Awards

• Official sitehttp://www.miltonnascimento.com.br
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/miltonbitucanascimento/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Nascimento
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542847

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• singer
• composer
• guitarist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.