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João Donato de Oliveira Neto (17 August 1934 – 17 July 2023) was a Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist as well as a trombonist from Rio Branco. He first worked with Altamiro Carrilho and went on to perform with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto .
- João Donato de Oliveira Neto
- 17 July 2023 (aged 88), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jul 21, 2023 · João Donato de Oliveira Neto was born on Aug. 17, 1934, in Rio Branco, the capital of the state of Acre. He began playing accordion and writing songs as a child. In 1945, he moved with his family ...
- Jon Pareles
Jul 17, 2023 · RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88.
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Jul 22, 2023 · João Donato de Oliveira Neto was born on August 17, 1934 in the northern city of Rio Branco (White River) capitol of the Brasilian State of Acre in the Amazon. Its geographic location would inform his musical ethos. “A lot of people wonder why João had an affinity for Cuban, Latin music. It’s because where he grew up was near Peru and ...
- Bobby Sanabria
Jul 18, 2023 · Donato was born João Donato de Oliveira Neto in Rio Branco on August 17, 1934, in the northern state of Acre, a landlocked rural area in the Amazon rainforest bordering Peru and Bolivia. He moved ...
- Charles Waring
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João Donato Follow Artist + This pianist, composer, arranger, producer, and singer has been a massively influential figure in the development of bossa nova and Brazilian jazz.
Jul 19, 2023 · João Donato was a bossa nova composer and pianist who performed with such greats as Astrud Gilberto (1940–2023) and Tito Puente (1923–2000). Died: July 17, 2023 (Who else died on July 17?)
