Chorão

Alexandre Magno Abrão, known professionally as Chorão, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, skateboarder, filmmaker, screenwriter and businessman, born on 9 April 1970 and died on 6 March 2013. He is best known as a founding member and the vocalist and main lyricist of the influential rock band Charlie Brown Jr., and the critic André Barcinski considered him the nearest thing to a punk hero that Brazilian mainstream music ever had. Born in the district of Tremembé in the northeast zone of São Paulo and raised there for most of his childhood, he was the only Charlie Brown Jr. member who was not a native of Santos and the only founding member to remain in every line-up of the group. His skateboarding is part of the identity that his music and brand carried to young Brazilians in the 1990s.