Alfredinho Flautim

A significant choro musician and sporadic composer in the first half from the 20th hundred years, Alfredinho Flautim joined the all-star Velha Guarda group and recorded three historic albums through Sinter: A Velha Guarda, Carnaval da Velha Guarda, and Festival da Velha Guarda. Blessed Alfredo José Rodrigues, he found Rio de Janeiro at age group 12 where he became close friends with Alfredo da Rocha Viana (Pixinguinha’s dad), who provided him his first music lessons. Acquiring the piccolo (flautim) as his primary device, he was shortly playing suburban balls, serenades, and carnival balls (as an associate of blocos and ranchos carnavalescos). In 1920, he documented an record with two of his music (“Caboclo Não Bebe Mais” and “Recordaçõha sido Campistas”) being a soloist. In 1949, Pixinguinha and Benedito Lacerda documented his “Devagar e Sempre,” however, it had been erroneously acknowledged to Pixinguinha/Benedito Lacerda. Needing to double being a taxi cab driver to produce a living, Flautim just knew popularity when he was 70 after retiring from generating in 1951 and became a member of Velha Guarda, arranged by Almirante in 1954. With Pixinguinha, Donga, João da Baiana, and various other important statistics of Brazilian well-known music of the time, Flautim began to carry out in 1955 in the Casablanca nightclub (Rio), in the display O Samba Nasce No Coração, finally achieving popular acclaim. He’d enjoy just 3 years of achievement before his demise.