Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião (1 November 1957 – 26 August 1988) was a singer and songwriter from Portugal.
Carlos Paião was also a doctor, having graduated in medicine in 1983, but his greatest passion was music.
In August 1988, Carlos Paião died in a car accident on N1 Road (old Lisbon-Porto road) in Ponte Amieira, near Rio Maior, Santarém district, while returning from a concert.
The Nissan Urvan that Carlos Paião was travelling in collided head-on with a truck that was irregularly overtaking a broken car.
[1] Songs recorded by other artists such as Herman José, Joel Branco, Candida Branca Flôr, Amália Rodrigues, Nuno da Câmara Pereira, Peter Petersen, Florbela Queirós, Octávio de Matos, Alexandra, Rodrigo, Lenita Gentil, António Mourão, Ana, Carlos Quintas, Gabriel Cardoso, Pedro Couceiro, Vasco Rafael, Luis Arriaga, and Norberto de Sousa.