"Born with albinism in 1936, Pascoal grew up in a small rural town in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. His parents worked in the fields, but the young Pascoal spent much of his time indoors due to his condition. While vision deficiencies led him to drop out of school in the fourth grade, Pascoal's ears guided him towards music. He learned to play accordion, flute and piano."
"By the 1960s, Pascoal moved to Rio de Janeiro and began playing with several trios before officially joining Quarteto Novo. The group's self-titled album, released in 1967, received critical acclaim in Brazil and helped further push the Northeastern genre of baiao into the international spotlight. In the coming years, Pascoal recorded and released several solo albums that included traditional instruments as well as everyday objects like pipes, kettles and even squealing pigs."
""I'm 100 percent intuitive," he told NPR in 2017. "I don't premeditate anything. I feel it. When something happens, I don't say, 'Now I'm going to do that.' No. If I want to write the music, I start creating. Every piece of my music, even the one"
Hermeto Pascoal was a pioneering Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist nicknamed "the Sorcerer" who died at 89. Family posts on social media announced his death. Born with albinism in 1936 in rural Alagoas, he left school in the fourth grade due to vision problems and taught himself accordion, flute and piano. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s, joined Quarteto Novo and helped popularize the Northeastern baiao genre internationally. Pascoal blended regional folk, jazz, psychedelia and whimsy, collaborated with figures from Airto Moreira to Miles Davis, and used unconventional sound sources like pipes, kettles and squealing pigs.
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