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Biography
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Donga
Real name: Ernesto Joaquim Maria Dos Santos
Effective period / Period of releases: 1987
Brazilian guitar player and songwriter. He wrote, with Mauro De Almeida, what some consider to be the first recorded samba in history, the 1916 song "Pelo Telefone".He was married to Zaíra de Oliveira.
b.: April 5, 1890 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ
d.: August 25, 1974 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ