Birth Name: Renato Manfredini Júnior
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of Birth: 27 March, 1960
Place of Death: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of Death: 11 October. 1996
Ethnicity: Brazilian [Italian, Portuguese, Irish, remote French, and distant Spanish, possibly other]
Renato Russo was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band Legião Urbana. He was the son of Renato Manfredini and Maria do Carmo de Oliveira.
Renato’s paternal grandfather was Alberto Manfredini, the son of Italian parents Pietro Sabino Antonio Manfredini and Maria Teresa Malvasori, from Cremona, Lombardy, Italy.
Renato’s paternal grandmother was Castorina Debenedicto Marcondes.
Renato’s maternal grandfather was José Mariano de Barros Oliveira, the son of Francisco Estêvão de Oliveira and Heliodora Alaíde de Barros.
Renato’s maternal grandmother was Leontine Carmen Manfredini. Leontine’s matrilineal line traces to Henry Armstrong, who was born in Dublin, Ireland. Leontine’s ancestry also included remote French and distant Spanish.
Source: Genealogy of Renato Russo (focusing on mother’s side): https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/LC5Z-NRH
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