HEITOR DOS PRAZERES & friends

Song-writers Paulo Benjamim de Oliveira (Paulo da Portela), Heitor dos Prazeres, singer Gilberto Alves Martins; and song-writers Alcebíades Maia Lacerda & Armando de Souza Marçal on a sunny day in the 1930s.

Agenor de Oliveira aka Cartola * 11 Oct 1908 + 30 Nov 1980.

Cartola having a puff; Cartola with Paulinho.

Cartola (Agenor de Oliveira) walks down a Mangueira street carrying his beloved guitar.

Cartola & Jamelão.

Heitor dos Prazeres & his naive painting...

a young Heitor dos Prazeres. 

 

Heitor dos Prazeres born on 2nd June 1902; father: Eduardo Alexandre dos Prazeres; mother: Celestina Gonçalves Martins.

Heitor dos Prazeres probably in the late 50s or early 60s.

primitive painting by Heitor dos Prazeres. 

Orquestra Diabos do Céu with Pixinguinha at the centre (sitting on the front row).

a pensive Ataulpho Alves...

Ataulpho, Emilinha Borba & Wilson Baptista.

MC Manoel Barcellos, Ataulpho Alves & his singers at Radio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.

Ataulpho Alves de Souza born on 2 May 1909; father: Severino de Souza; mother: Mathilde Bernarda de Jesus Mineiro; hight: 1.80 metres or 5 foot 9 inches.

Lamartine de Azevedo Babo born on 10 January 1904; father: Leopoldo de Azevedo Babo; mother: Bernarda P. Babo.