| Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião (born in Coimbra on 1 November 1957 - 26 August 1988 in Rio Maior) was a very popular singer and songwriter from Portugal.
He represented Portugal at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest 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" road Lisbon-Oporto) in Ponte Amieira, near Rio Maior, Santarém district, while returning from a concert. The Datsun Urvan Carlos Paião was travelling in collided head on with a truck that was irregularly overtaking a broken car. ALBUMS: |
