Alexandre Pires do Nascimento (born January 8, 1976 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter. Pires was previously the singer of group Só Pra Contrariar which he joined in the late 1980s.
Pires began his career playing a new and more apelative style of samba that is known as Pagode and more romantic too that used to be known as Samba-canção and now is known as Samba Romântico. After his rhythm and melody started to become a little more romantic. He crossed the vertent known as «Pagode Romântico» and then he jumped to Samba-canção his favourite style. The Sambas-canção most famous are «Depois do Prazer» and «Tudo tem A ver» with a lot of influences of Brazilian Country Music («Sertaneja»). The pagodes that are the most famous are «Quando é Amor», «A barata» and «Mineirinho» produced with the group Só Pra Contrariar. At that time, he received also a lot the influences of Cauby Peixoto, Ângela Maria and Agnaldo Rayol, mainly because his father was one of the best friends of Cauby Peixoto, according to a conversation with Pires at TV also edited at the internet. When he finished his last album with the group he produced also Romantic pop and Latin music.