The ABC of Old Masters of Capoeira

88
Raimundo Daniel de Paula
Mestre Gaguinho
20/Jul/1935 - 24/Aug/2019

August, 2019 in: featured

The ABC

1935 - Was born on the 20th July on the Itaparica island.
1955 - Being 18-19 he started to learn capoeira, probably right away in Pelourinho 19, in M Pastinha's academy, which he opened there in May 1955.
1963 - Appears on the photos with M Pastinha and his students on the Pelourinho slope (see below).
1965 - Married.
1967 - Moved to São Paulo.
2009 - Participated in the recording of CD Angoleiro Sim Sinhô (hear below).
2019 - Died on the 24th August.
📻 Velhos Mestres

M Gaguinho, 2009

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18.

Capoeira de Angola me chamou

2:33

19.

Delegado me intimou

1:13

20.

Sinhá e meu boi

0:57

21.

Canarinho de Alemanha

2:37

22.

Pimenta madura

0:30

23.

Besouro

1:08

M Gaguinho, 2009
Images
Standing:
M Pastinha,
Gildo Alfinete,
Gaguinho (red square, 28 years old),
Nelson (berimbau),
?,
Sapateiro,
Genário Lemos Couto (Gildo Alfinete's brother),
Roberto Satanás,
Gil Rui (Gildo Alfinete's brother),
Genésio Meio Quilo (Gildo Alfinete's brother)
Playing: Raimundo Natividade and Albertino da Hora (Moreno)
Pelourinho, Salvador
1963
Collection of Gildo Alfinete

Standing:
M Pastinha,
Gildo Alfinete,
Sapateiro (reco-reco),
Nelson Papa Fumo (berimbau),
Raimundo Natividade (berimbau),
Gaguinho (red square),
Albertino da Hora (berimbau),
? (agogô),
Genário Lemos Couto
Squatting:
Genésio Meio Quilo,
Roberto Satanás,
Gil Rui,
Pelourinho, Salvador
1963
Collection of Gildo Alfinete

Probably this photo was taken on the same day in M Pastinha's academy:
Sitting:
?,
Gildo Alfinete,
Sapateiro,
Gaguinho (red square),
Nelson Papa Fumo,
Raimundo Natividade,
Albertino da Hora,
Genário Lemos Couto
Squatting:
Genésio Meio Quilo,
M Pastinha,
Gil Rui
Largo do Pelourinho 19, Salvador
1963
Collection of Gildo Alfinete

M Leopoldina,
M Gato Preto,
M Zambi,
M Gaguinho
Collection: M Zambi

M Leopoldina,
M Gato Preto,
M Panão,
M Gaguinho
Collection: M Panão

M Gaguinho and M Índio Mocambo
Collection: M Índio Mocambo

M Moa do Katendê,
M Gaguinho,
CM Pedro Peu,
M Plínio
Guarani village, SP
Year: 2012
Collection: Grupo Angoleiro Sim Sinhô

M Gaguinho,
M Moa do Katendê,
M Plínio,
CM Pedro Peu
Year: 2012
Guarani village, SP
Collection: Grupo Angoleiro Sim Sinhô

CM Pedro Peu,
M Plínio,
M Moa do Katendê,
M Gaguinho
Playing: ? e Sven
Year: 2012
Guarani village, SP
Collection: Grupo Angoleiro Sim Sinhô

Berimbaus:
M Plínio,
CM Pedro Peu,
CM Freguesia
Playing: M Moa do Katendê and M Gaguinho
Year: 2012
Guarani village, SP
Collection: Grupo Angoleiro Sim Sinhô

CM Pedro Peu,
M Plínio,
M Moa do Katendê,
M Gaguinho,
Jurandir
Year: 2012
Guarani village, SP
Collection: Grupo Angoleiro Sim Sinhô

M Gaguinho
Photo: CM Marcelo Finco

M Gaguinho
Year: 2018
Photo: M Zambi

M Gaguinho e M Cícero Reis
Year: 2019
Collection: M Cícero Reis

M Gaguinho,
M Boca Rica,
M Cícero Reis
Year: 2019
Collection: M Cícero Reis

M Gaguinho and M Boca Rica
Year: 2019
Collection: M Cícero Reis
M Gaguinho

M Gaguinho playing

M Gaguinho

About the Old Masters:

«[Besouro's] first contact with the world of capoeira took place with an old african called Alípio, who was a captive in the Pantaleão Mill. When planting sugarcane, the student heard and learned from the old man the teachings of capoeira. Uncle Alípio was a Babalawo [candomblé priest] and had been a slave when young, a son of a black woman who was brought in a ship from the port of São Jorge da Mina in Dahomey [Benin].»
Abib, 2009
«Mestre Pastinha and his students would put the strap [of caxixi] around the little and the ring finger. He talks about this in his book, and it can be seen on the photographies taken in his Academy.»
Shaffer, 1977
«Rafael I don't know with whom he learned, don't know. I knew him here when he was capoeira mestre. I didn't have much knowledge about him. But later he came here to Pero Vaz [..] He also had his academy in the city. I didn't have integration with him.»
M Waldemar, 1987
«The deceased Traíra was who took care of the roda. I went there, gave my order and went to have a beer. I was made.»
M Waldemar in Abreu, 2003
«That time there was a group [in São Braz]: it was me, Messias [M Messias, born in 1929], Zinho, Genesio, Lao, Tomazinho, Jaime, Chumbinho [..] So we had this group of boys who were all 16, 15-16 years old. And we used to get together on Saturdays and Sundays to do this capoeira. And Léo was the mestre.»
M Gato Preto, 1999

GAGUINHO

88
Raimundo Daniel de Paula
Mestre Gaguinho
20/Jul/1935 - 24/Aug/2019

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