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Billy Blanco

real name William Blanco Abrunhosa Trindade

Billy Blanco is credited on 740 releases across 199 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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740

Credits

199

Albums

8

Decades active

88

In collections

Biography

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Brazilian songwriter, known as "the Diamond Of Bossa Nova", born in 1924 in Belem, Brazil. Author of over 300 songs, some of them in collaboration with Tom Jobim, Baden Powell, Sebastião Tapajós, and Silvio Caldas. Died from complications of a stroke on July 8, 2011 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

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Credited work

740 releases · 199 albums · active 1952–2025

  • Performance · 932
  • Other credits · 4
  • Production · 1

Studios: Pierce Hall, Washington, D.C. · Rio Som · All Souls Church Unitarian · MPS-Studio, Villingen

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