1. Max Cavalera co-founded the heavy metal band Sepultura in 1984 with his brother Igor Cavalera, and was the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist until his departure in 1997.
20 Facts About Max Cavalera
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Max Cavalera currently plays in the heavy metal bands Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, Killer Be Killed and Go Ahead and Die.
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Max Cavalera's father, Graziano Cavalera, was an employee of the Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte.
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Max Cavalera died at 41 years of age, when Max was nine years old.
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Max Cavalera's family was in a state of financial crisis and family turbulence when he formed Sepultura with his younger brother Igor, in the bohemian neighborhood of Santa Tereza in Belo Horizonte.
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Max Cavalera moved to Sao Paulo in 1989 together with the other members of the band, and shared an apartment in Santa Cecilia.
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Max Cavalera did not begin to make spiritual music until after he quit Sepultura in January 1997.
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Max Cavalera's albums have all been dedicated to God, and he has often been depicted by the press as a man of religion, especially in the United States, something that Cavalera himself says he does not understand:.
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Max Cavalera reunited with his brother Igor, in their band Cavalera Conspiracy, and wrote and performed on Soulfly's Conquer, released in 2008.
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Max Cavalera appears in the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned as himself on the ingame radio station LCHC.
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In 2013, Max Cavalera released his autobiography, titled My Bloody Roots; his co-writer was the British author Joel McIver and the book's foreword was written by Dave Grohl.
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Max Cavalera is known for playing his six-string guitar with only four strings; with the B and high E strings opted out.
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Max Cavalera used to play with three strings, but eventually started playing with four due to Andreas Kisser writing a Sepultura song that required another string.
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Max Cavalera did return to using three temporarily with his project Nailbomb.
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Since 1992, Max Cavalera has lived in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife Gloria and their five children.
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In 2022, Max Cavalera attracted criticism after a 2014 clip resurfaced of him telling a Moscow crowd that he supported the internationally unrecognised Russian annexation of Crimea.
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On July 5,2023, Max Cavalera announced that his mother Vania had died.
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Max Cavalera is a fan of Palmeiras and the Detroit Lions.
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Max Cavalera has collaborated with many different artists while in Sepultura and Soulfly.
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Max Cavalera appeared in The Mummy Returns in an off-camera role as the Scorpion King, providing the guttural screams for Dwayne Johnson.