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Paulinho DaViola

Born: November 12, 1942

Son of a guitarist, Paulinho da Viola grew up in a musical atmosphere. His childhood in Botafogo, a traditional neighborhood of the southern area of Rio de Janeiro, where he was born on November 12, 1942, was full of music and history.

At that time, as there were not so many choices of industrial toys for the low middle class children, Paulinho and their friends had to be creative to have fun. The table top button soccer pieces were made of coconut, the soccer ball was made of socks and, if the police patrol car wasn’t around, the kids would play soccer in the middle of Pinheiro Guimarães street, improvising a field on it, a practice that would be unthinkable nowadays, due to the intense traffic on that thoroughfare.