"Lô Borges, a legend of Brazilian popular music and one of the founders of the Clube da Esquina musical collective, died on Sunday, November 2. Borges' family confirmed the news in a statement posted to his official social media pages. According to Folha de S.Paulo, the musician had been hospitalized for a drug-related infection, and Borges' family wrote, in Portuguese, that he "fought bravely for 17 days." Borges was 73 years old."
"The sixth of 11 children, Salomão Borges Filho was born in 1952, in Belo Horizonte, the capital and largest city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As teenagers, Borges and his older brother Márcio became associated with a group of musicians who gathered at the corner of Rua Divinópolis and Rua Paraisópolis in the neighborhood of Santa Tereza to smoke, hang out, make music. Their "corner club," as it came to be known, blended MPB- música popular brasileira, one of the dominant styles of Brazilian music during the 1960s-with jazz, psychedelic rock, and the Beatles' baroque pop."
"Among those musicians was Milton Nascimento, who was about 10 years older than Borges and had moved from the town of Três Pontas to Belo Horizonte in 1963. A rising international star following his performance at the inaugural MPB festival in 1965, Nascimento co-wrote two songs on his 1970 album Milton, "Para Lennon e McCartney" and "Clube da Esquina," alongside the Borges brothers. Lô was planning to join the Brazilian army at 18, but Nascimento invited him to Rio de Janeiro to work on another project."
Lô Borges died on November 2 at age 73 after a 17-day fight with a drug-related infection. He was born Salomão Borges Filho in 1952 in Belo Horizonte as the sixth of 11 children. As a teenager he and his brother Márcio joined a group of musicians in Santa Tereza who formed a "corner club" blending MPB with jazz, psychedelic rock, and Beatles-style baroque pop. Borges collaborated closely with Milton Nascimento, co-writing on Nascimento's 1970 album Milton. Borges claimed writing credits on eight of the 21 tracks of the influential 1972 Clube da Esquina album.
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