Biography
Adoniran Barbosa
Real name: João Rubinato
Effective period / Period of releases: 1974 - 2007
Traditional Brazilian samba singer and composer, born 6 August 1910, Valinhos, died 23 November 1982, São Paulo, Brazil. He was the most important composer of the paulista variation of samba, more acoustic guitar based, more melancholic and bucolic - even though he won several competitions of Carnival marches in Rio.