Arrigo Barnabé

{{Short description|Brazilian musician and actor (born 1951)}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Arrigo Barnabé

| image = Arrigo barnabe tvbrasil.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|9|14}}

| birth_place = Londrina, Brazil

| genre = Avant-garde, experimental, psychedelic rock, progressive rock

| occupation = Musician, composer, actor

| instrument = Piano, vocal, synthesizer, percussion

| years_active = 1980-presents

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Arrigo Barnabé (born September 14, 1951) is a Brazilian musician and actor. His best-known record is perhaps the critically acclaimed Clara Crocodilo.{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p324379|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Arrigo Barnabé|last= Neder|first=Alvaro|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=16 April 2010}} "He wrote the highly successful song "Clara Crocodilo" (with Mário Lúcio Cortes)..." "The album [Clara Crocodilo] was awarded...with the APCA (São Paulo's Art Critics' Association) prize.""[http://www.allmusic.com/album/fa%C3%A7anhas-mw0001164589 Façanhas]", AllMusic.com. "Barnabé came out with two stunning releases, Clara Crocodilo (1980) and Tubarões Voadores (1984)..."

Barnabé was born in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. His music is best known for having a heavily experimental approach, in which the author uses dodecaphonism and atonalism as main principles of composition. He also has written soundtracks for several Brazilian movies.

He hosts a radio show called Supertônicas at Rádio Cultura in São Paulo.

Arrigo Barnabé is cited in the songs "Língua" by Caetano Veloso and "Eu Quero Saber Quem Matou" by Rogério Skylab.

He has a younger brother, Paulo Barnabé, also a musician and member of the experimental band Patife Band.