“When Rihanna's team reached out to me, I said, ‘Why would you want to use me? Like, I do what I do’”: Nuno Bettencourt explains why he accepted the role of Rihanna's go-to guitarist

Rihanna and Nuno Bettencourt perform at BB&T Center on April 20, 2013 in Sunrise, Florida.

Aside from his solo work and Extreme, Nuno Bettencourt has lent his talents to a menagerie of artists, including Janet Jackson, Rihanna, Julian Lennon, and Dweezil Zappa. Despite his impressive list of collaborators, Bettencourt has revealed that he never sacrificed his tone or playing style to land a gig.

“The tone doesn't change at all,” he tells Positive Grid. “I've never done anything where somebody says ‘You can't use your rig, or you can't be you.’