Kid Vinil, stage name of Antônio Carlos Senefonte ( Cedral, 10 March 1955 –

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, 19 May 2017), was a Brazilian singer, radio broadcaster, composer and journalist. He became famous in the

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of the 1980s.

Biography

Kid Vinil was the vocalist of the Brazilian band ''Magazine'', that used to execute the songs ''Tic Tic Nervoso'' (composed by Marcos Serra and Antonio Luiz), ''A Gata Comeu'', ''Sou Boy'' and ''Glub Glub No Clube'', all three composed by Kid himself. In the beginning of the 1980s, he had been member of ''Verminose'', a band of the genres punk rock and

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. He were too member of the São Paulo Punk Rock Movement in its beginning, organizing shows and playing songs of bands of punk rock and

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in his

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. In TV, he has taken place as artist of the television program ''Boca Livre'' in 1987 in

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. In Bandeirantes TV, he has presented the program ''Mocidade Independente'' and after he became

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of MTV, taking place in programs like ''Lado B'' in which he used to present videoclips. He returned to the scene in ''Magazine'' in 2000, with the second work by the label Trama, the CD ''Na Honestidade'' in 2002. Closed the ''Magazine'', he made a new band, the ''Kid Vinil Xperience'' in 2005 and recorded his first independent CD in 2010, named ''Time Was''. In 2008, he wrote a book by publisher Ediouro called ''Almanaque do Rock'', that reports the history of the rock, beginning in the 1950s until nowadays. He then travelled around Brazil, produced ''revival'' 1980s parties and showed with the ''Kid Vinil Xperience''. He died on 19 May 2017, aged 62.Morre, aos 62 anos, o cantor e produtor Kid Vinil

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Bibliography

Senefonte, Antônio Carlos. ''Almanaque do Rock''. Rio de Janeiro:Ediouro, 2008.

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{{Authority control 1955 births 2017 deaths Brazilian composers Brazilian rock singers Musicians from São Paulo (state) Brazilian radio personalities Brazilian journalists Brazilian LGBT singers LGBT people in Latin music 20th-century Brazilian people

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