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Ernesto Beltrán Aguilar better known as Tito Beltrán (born 1 July 1965), is a Chilean-Swedish
tenor A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is wide ...
. In October 2008, an appellate court in Sweden sentenced Beltrán to 2.5 years in prison for
rape Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or ...
and sexual molestation of an underage child. Beltrán was released from prison in Sweden on 25 February 2010 and served the rest of his sentence under electronic surveillance at home. Upon completing his sentence, he returned to Chile where he has made some public performances, also taking part in a number of public events and festivals. Late 2010, he was assigned as one of the judges for first-ever series of the Chilean ''X Factor''.


Musical career

Beltrán was born in
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, Chile, but moved to Sweden in 1986. He studied singing with Otto Kern and Robin Stapleton at the Music Academy at Göteborg University, studying tenor specialized in Italian opera tradition. He has performed at various
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s around the world, and also widely at different scenes and TV shows in Sweden. In 2007, he performed at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, where he took part in the operas '' La Traviata'' and ''
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''. He has also performed popular music, among others, with Robert Wells at the annual ''Rhapsody in Rock'' with high Swedish attendance records of 43,000 people at
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in an 8 August 2003 show. He was signed to Silva Screen Records.


Legal troubles

In a 2004 court case, Beltrán was convicted for
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after having driven his car with his neighbour on the hood. In February 2008, Beltrán was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for the
rape Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or ...
of the 18-year-old
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of actress Maria Lundqvist while he was on tour in Sweden in 1999. The rape took place at Nötesjö Wärdshus
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immediately following a concert of the star-studded ''Rhapsody in Rock'' tour. During the trial, as Beltrán's former friend Robert Wells made his
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, Beltrán collapsed and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance. In October 2008, a Swedish Court of Appeal found Beltrán guilty of rape. He was also found guilty in another case, one of sexual abuse of a child and of interference in a judicial matter, where he had been acquitted by a District Court. Beltrán has harshly criticized the trial. He is also disappointed with the level of support he has received from
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an authorities, particularly from the Chilean ambassador to Sweden, Ovid Harasich. Beltrán accused Harasich of "lying to him" after having guaranteed "political action" to aid Beltrán in his case. After the verdict Beltrán considered of filing a case at the
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. He then was arrested by police. On 12 December 2008, the Swedish Supreme Court said it would not take up the case, and thus established Court of Appeal judgement against him. Beltrán returned again to court in August 2009 for the allegation of threatening a fellow inmate. A video was released showing Tito lashing out and flipping over a table. On 31 August, Beltrán was convicted for these threats in the District Court, but no sentence was added as it was a minor offence in relation to the sentence that he had already been given for the rape. On 15 January 2010, the unlawful threat conviction was overturned in the Court of Appeals and he was declared not guilty. He returned to Chile after serving his sentence in Sweden.


Personal life

In 2015, Beltrán divorced his wife Jenny Katarina (born 1979) with whom he has one son. He later married a Chilean woman with whom he had a son in 2016. Beltrán has five children from previous relationships.


References


External links

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TitoBeltranTenor.com
Official site
Tito Beltran – Nessun Dorma
BBC Review
Official fanclub
on
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