{"id":2065312,"date":"2025-10-02T22:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2065312"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:12:04","slug":"brazilian-music-legend-milton-nascimento-has-dementia-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brazilian-music-legend-milton-nascimento-has-dementia-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian music legend Milton Nascimento has dementia: family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Celebrated Brazilian musician Milton Nascimento, 82, whose soaring voice has enchanted fans worldwide, has been diagnosed with dementia, his family said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Grammy-winning artist, a contemporary of other Brazilian icons such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Chico Buarque, experienced a &#8220;sudden worsening of his cognitive status&#8221; earlier this year, his son Augusto Nascimento said in an interview published Thursday by Piaui magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After a series of tests, he was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, the most common form of the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nascimento is being taken care of at his home in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The singer retired from the stage when he turned 80, but was nominated for a Grammy this year in the category Best Jazz Vocal Album for his collaboration with American singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spalding took to Instagram to complain that the &#8220;living legend&#8221; had not been given a seat at her table &#8220;among the A-listers&#8221; on the ceremony floor, and held up a cutout of his photo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">jss\/app\/fb\/bgs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated Brazilian musician Milton Nascimento, 82, whose soaring voice has enchanted fans worldwide, has been diagnosed with dementia, his family said. The Grammy-winning artist, a contemporary of other Brazilian icons such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Chico Buarque, experienced a &#8220;sudden worsening of his cognitive status&#8221; earlier this year, his son Augusto Nascimento said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2065313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[385873,385871,385872,385874,385870,385869,385868],"class_list":["post-2065312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-augusto-nascimento","tag-caetano-veloso","tag-chico-buarque","tag-esperanza-spalding","tag-gilberto-gil","tag-lewy-body-dementia","tag-milton-nascimento"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Brazilian-music-legend-Milton-Nascimento-has-dementia-family.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065314,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065312\/revisions\/2065314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}