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SPC may refer to any of the following:

in business and law,

• Segregated portfolio company, a specialised form of offshore company
• Special purpose company or Special purpose vehicle, a subsidiary usually created solely for isolating a financial risk, or for Financial Reporting reasons
• Statistical process control (SPC), the application of statistical methods to the monitoring and control of a process to ensure that it operates at its full potential to produce conforming product.
• Strategic Performance Contract: an internal management tool used to detail and implement a strategy (e.g. at the World Bank)
• Supplementary protection certificate, a sui generis, patent-like, intellectual property right

in company names,

• Shepparton Preserving Company, a brand of jams and tinned goods founded in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
• Singapore Petroleum Company Limited, a Singapore area oil company
• Software Publishing Corporation, a former U.S. computer software manufacturer
• SPC Corporation, a Korean food company from Samlip Group
• Syrian Petroleum Company, a state-owned oil company
• Synthetic Plastics Company, a defunct plastics manufacturer that owned many budget-price record labels

in entertainment,

• Samurai Pizza Cats, a cult classic anime show (known in Japan as Kyattou Ninden Teyandee)
• Sony Pictures Classics, speciality division of Sony Pictures Entertainment
• South Park Coalition, a rap group from Houston, Texas
• Suite Pretty Cure, Japanese Animated Show

in politics and government,

• Secretariat of the Pacific Community, a Pacific Islands regional intergovernmental organisation
• Socialist Party of Canada
• Socialist Party of British Columbia
• Supreme People's Court (disambiguation), highest judicial body in several countries (predominantly socialist)

in science and technology,

• Secure multiparty computation, a cryptography problem introduced in 1982
• Simple point charge, a 3-point water model used in computational chemistry simulations
• SPC file format, a file format used in spectroscopy
• SPC700 sound format, a file format used to log music data from Super Nintendo Entertainment System games for later playback
• Stage pin connector a standard power cable connector
• Statistical process control, a method for achieving quality control in manufacturing processes
• Storage Performance Council, a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize, and promote storage subsystem benchmarks
• Stored Program Control exchange, a type of telephone exchange
• Storm Prediction Center, a division of NOAA's National Weather Service that deals with strong to severe weather events
• Summary of Product Characteristics i.e. the official description of a pharmaceutical product

One of many schools, including:

• St Patrick's College (disambiguation), various institutions
• Saint Paul's College (disambiguation), various institutions
• St Peter's College (disambiguation), various institutions
• St. Petersburg College, an accredited Florida community college with multiple campuses in Pinellas County

in other uses,

• 6.8 mm Remington SPC (Special Purpose Cartridge), a rifle cartridge developed by Remington and the US military
• La Palma Airport, IATA Airport Code: SPC
• Serbian Orthodox Church, an Eastern Orthodox Christian Church
• Southern Presbyterian Church (Australia)
• Southwest Preparatory Conference, an interscholastic athletic league consisting of 19 elite private schools in Texas and Oklahoma
• Specialist (rank), Specialist (abbreviated "SPC") is one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the U.S. Army
• Special police constable
• Statistical Programme Committee, which has been replaced by the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC)
• Student Price Card, a loyalty card program in Canada
• Summary of Product Characteristics, the defining information document for medicinal products used in the European Union
• Swedish Paralympic Committee, the non-profit organization representing Swedish athletes in the International Paralympic Committee

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Alexandre Pires
Background information
Birth name	Alexandre Pires do Nascimento
Born	(1976-01-08) January 8, 1976 (age 36)
Origin	Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Genres	Pagode, Samba-Canção, Pop and Latin
Occupations	singer
Instruments	Voice
Years active	1990–present
Labels	SonyBMG
Associated acts	Só Pra Contrariar

Alexandre Pires do Nascimento (born January 8, 1976 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a Brazilian singer. Pires was previously the singer of group Só Pra Contrariar which he joined in the late 80s.

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.

After several albums in Portuguese, the band released a very successful album in 1999 titled Juegos de Amor. The album included the hit song "Santo Santo" featuring Gloria Estefan.

In 2001, Pires released his first solo album to much success. He has continued to release albums both in Portuguese and in Spanish achieving several hits in Latin charts.

In 2007, he released a tribute album to Spanish singer Julio Iglesias. That 2007, he met and had a duet on the song titled "Junto A Ti" with Kika Edgar from the telenovela Bajo las Riendas del Amor.

Non-original musics[link]

Some musics of Alexandre Pires are not of his own creation. They are music from foreigner artists with different lyrics. They are:

• Estrela Cadente - Created after A-ha's Hunting High And Low.

• Minha Fantasia - Created after Lenny Kravitz's It Ain't Over 'til It's Over.

• Eva Meu Amor - Created after Paul Young's Everytime You Go Away.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 1997: Só Pra Contrariar
• 2001: Alexandre Pires
• 2002: Minha Vida Minha
• 2003: Grandes Exitos
• 2003: Estrella Guía
• 2003: Estrella Guía (Español)
• 2004: E Por Amor
• 2004: E Por Amor (Español)
• 2004: Alma Brasilera
• 2004: Alma Brasilera (Español)
• 2004: Alto Falante
• 2005: Meu Samba
• 2007: A Un Idolo (Hommage A Julio Iglesias)
• 2007: O melhor De Alexandre Pires
• 2008: Em Casa
• 2010: Mais Além

Singles[link]

• 2001: "Usted Se Me Llevo La Vida" – #5 U.S. Latin
• 2002: "Necesidad" – #5 U.S. Latin
• 2002: "Es Por Amor" – #8 U.S. Latin
• 2003: "Quitemonos La Ropa" – #3 U.S. Latin
• 2003: "En El Silencio Negro De La Noche" – #24 U.S. Latin
• 2003: "Amame" – #2 U.S. Latin
• 2004: "Quitemonos La Ropa" – #35 U.S. Latin
• 2004: "Cosa Del Destino" – #4 U.S. Latin
• 2007: "Lo Mejor De Tu Vida" – #23 U.S. Latin

See also[link]

• Afro-Brazilians

External links[link]

• Alexandre Pires Biography
• Another Alexandre Pires Biography