We can't forget
Sivuca!
Severino Dias de Oliveira (May 26, 1930 – December 14, 2006), known professionally as
Sivuca, was a Brazilian
accordionist, guitarist and singer. In addition to his home state of
Paraíba, Brazil, and cities
Recife and
Rio de Janeiro, he worked and lived in
Paris,
Lisbon, and
New York City intermittently. He has two daughters, Wilma Da Silva and Flavia de Oliveira Barreto.
He worked with Scandinavian jazz musicians in the 1980s. His most famous songs are "João e Maria" with lyrics by
Chico Buarque and "Feira de Mangaio", named after the artisan markets of northeast Brazil. He used makeshift instruments alongside conventional ones and combined traditional regional styles such as
forró and
choro with jazz,
bossa nova, and classical music. Sivuca and
Hermeto Pascoal, both versatile multi-instrumentalists with
albinism, worked together and are sometimes confused with each other.
