Evaldo Gouveia
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| Birth name | Evaldo Gouveia de Oliveira |
| Born | August 8, 1928 Orós, Ceará, Brazil |
| Died | May 29, 2020 (aged 91) Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil |
| Genres | MPB |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, classical guitar |
| Years active | 1940s–2011 |
| Labels | Abril Cultural, RCA Camden, RGE, Som Livre |
Evaldo Gouveia de Oliveira (8 August 1928 – 29 May 2020), better known as simply Evaldo Gouveia, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter of the genre MPB.[1]
Born in Orós, a small city in the Brazilian state of Ceará, he moved with his family to neighboring city of Iguatu when only 3 months old.[1]
At the age of 11, he moved to his birth state capital city of Fortaleza where he started his precocious musical career. There in the 1950s he created and joined a band called Trio Nagô with his fellow musicians and friends Mário Alves and Epaminondas de Souza, releasing six studio albums and various extended plays.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Eventually, Gouveia went to Rio de Janeiro in order to pursue a solo career, and achieved stardom due to his friendship with fellow singer Altemar Dutra, who helped Gouveia by singing his songs and making them popular.[1][2]
As a solo act, Gouveia released seven studio albums and various extended plays, most of them featuring fellow singers Adelino Moreira and Jair Amorim, even though they never formed a band.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
