With more than 30 years of career, Belo became nationally recognized after being the lead singer of the group Soweto from 1993 to 2000. However, his artistic name appeared long before that.
Born Marcelo Pires Vieira , the singer decided to adopt his childhood nickname to introduce himself to the public. In 2018, the musician revealed the story of his name during Altas Horas.
“This Belo thing was because I had a reputation for dating three, four girls at once, when I was 11 or 12 years old. So people kept saying: 'This guy is very smart, handsome'. And I was never pretty, beautiful. But to mess around, it was beautiful,” he explained.
This Friday (19), Belo joins Soweto again to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the pagode group, with the “Sow3t0” tour.
In addition to this new moment in his career, the singer's name came to the fore last Thursday (18), after the end of his 16-year marriage with Gracyanne Barbosa.
Source: CNN Brasil

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