Nelson Ned

Date of Birth: March 02, 1947

Date of Death: January 05, 2014 (66 years old)

Biography

He was a Brazilian singer-songwriter.

His parents and six siblings were of average height, and Nelson Ned was born the size of a normal baby, but at six months he was diagnosed with a condition called spondylo-epiphyseal dysplasia, a type of dwarfism. Nelson’s height reached 1.12 m. At the age of 5, his parents, seeing his aptitude for song, took him to the Labor Educator Radio auditions, consecrating him as a small celebrity for the audience.

He made his first appearance at the age of 14 on Tele Itacolomi, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, in his native Brazil, thus beginning his career. At the age of 16, the aforementioned television network offered him to be the main driver in a program called: “People, size does not matter.” He won the contest “A singer for a million” and, when least expected, he appeared in São Paulo to perform at the “Discoteca la Chacrinha”.

After a long personal and professional hiatus, in 1993, Nelson converted to evangelical Christianity, and began to focus his resumed career on Christian music, composing spiritual songs that expressed his evangelical Christian faith.5 In 1996 he published his autobiography called “The Little Gigante de la Canción”, which was first published in Portuguese. This book is a compilation of events in the life of Nelson Ned by Jefferson Magno Costa.

In 1993, the album “Jesus Is Alive” came out under the record label “Line Records”, which is an evangelical record label in Brazil. This CD was the first to be released also in Spanish. In 1994, Nelson recorded the album “Jesús Te Ama”, edited by Warner Capell Brasil, being his second album also recorded in Spanish.

In 2002, he released the album “Jesus é Vida”. This was his third CD translated into Spanish with the title “Jesucristo es Vida”, this album had the special participation of the Portuguese version by Luis de Carvalho, both recorded and distributed by “Bom Pastor” from Brazil.

In 2004 he released his latest work of Christian music called “Jesus Ressuscitou” under the label “Zekap Gospel” from Brazil, with which he practically disappeared from artistic circles.