Pascoal (b 1936) Brazilian musician and multi instrumentalist. As well as being a record producer, he is one of Brazil’s most loved composers.
From being a small boy, he was fascinated by the sounds of nature and played to the birds from with a fife he made from a pumpkin mammon pipe. He also used to make music with the scraps of metal he found in his Grandfather’s blacksmith workshop, but tying them up with bits of rope to produce musical sounds. By the age of 7 he picked up his father’s 8-bass accordion, and never stopped. He also played tambourine with his brother at parties and wedding receptions. He went onto play piano and the next the flute and by 1961 when he moved to São Paulo he is playing at many nightclubs with various bands, alternating the different instruments he has learned over the years. In 1966, with his group, Quarteto Novo, they used to ride in Television to take part in the television festivals, representing the best of Brazilian music of that time. They won one of the Brazilian Music Festivals with the song “Ponteio” and Pascoal goes on to win many other prizes as a talented music arranger with folk music of Brazil being an important influence in his work. Please check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WBGsBNL54
