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1988Aug, 26

Carlos Paião

Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião (born in Coimbra on 1 November 1957, died 26 August 1988 in Rio Maior) was a singer and songwriter from Portugal. He represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song Playback. Carlos Paião was also a doctor, having graduated in medicine in 1983, but his great passion was music.

Some of his songs became national hits. In August 1988, Carlos Paião died in a car accident on N1 Road (old Lisbon-Porto road) in Ponte Amieira, near Rio Maior, Santarém district, while returning from a concert. The Datsun Urvan that Carlos Paião was travelling in collided head-on with a truck that was irregularly overtaking a broken car.

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