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 sm

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