Inducted November 18, 2018 Guitar virtuoso Nuno Bettencourt rose to international prominence as guitar player with the Boston area group Extreme, which signed to A&M and released five ground-breaking albums, selling over 10 million records worldwide. After a series of solo projects, in 2006 Nuno joined forces with Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell for a new project featuring Bettencourt as lead guitarist. In 2009 Nuno was personally recruited by Rihanna to be her guitar player and touring music director. He brought his signature rock-edge to her more R&B/Dance sound on her past four mega-world tours. In 2014 Nuno joined up with the
supergroup The Kings of Chaos which featured Guns N’ Roses members Matt Sorum, Gilby Clarke and Duff McKagan as well as Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Billy Gibbons (ZZ TOP) and Robin Zander (Cheap Trick). A career highlight for Nuno was when he and Steven Tyler performed together at the 21st Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, honoring children’s rights activists.
Nuno Bettencourt
