Nuno Bettencourt is a Portuguese guitarist, singer- songwriter as well as record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme. He has also recorded a solo album as well as having founded bands including, Mourning Widows, Population 1, Drama Gods, The Satellite Party. In 2007 he also reunited with Extreme to record to record new music and tour, with the band planning to release material sometime in 2017.
Extreme is an American rock band, headed by frontmen Gary Cherone and Nuno BettenCourt, formed in 1985. The band reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band has described their music as “funky metal” in the early days, but it would evolve much more in the mid-1990s by blending classic rock influences with post-grunge and alternative rock.
Here is a concert clip of Nuno Bettencourt performs “Midnight Express”. Let’s have a look….
