Herivelto de Oliveira Martins (also Herivelto Martins) (

Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin () is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 14,071 (2020) and its area is 139 km².IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasilei ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, January 30, 1912 –

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

, September 17, 1992) was a Brazilian composer, singer, and music player. Martins was the author of many classic Brazilian songs, especially sambas. They include: * Da cor do meu violão * Ave Maria no Morro * Praça onze * Que rei sou eu? Martins formed the Trio de Ouro group in 1936 with Nilo Chagas and his wife,

Dalva de Oliveira Dalva de Oliveira or Vicentina de Paula Oliveira (May 5, 1917 – August 31, 1972) was a Brazilian singer and one of "divas" of the "Radio Era." Her greatest hits included ''Segredo'' (Secret) (1947), ''Tudo acabado'' (It's All Over) (1950), '' ...

. Martin's son,

Pery Ribeiro Pery Ribeiro (27 October 1937 – 24 February 2012) was a Brazilian singer of bossa nova, MPB and jazz, active as a singer from 1959 until shortly before his death. Biography Pery Ribeiro was born Peri Oliveira Martins on 27 October 1937, son ...

, became a highly successful singer of Bossa Nova, and

Música popular brasileira Música popular brasileira (, ''Popular Brazilian Music'') or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and baião and other Brazilian regional music, com ...

and

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Selected filmography

* '' Berlin to the Samba Beat'' (1944)

External links

Martin's Biography at Cliquemusic
1912 births 1992 deaths Brazilian male composers 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers 20th-century composers {{Brazil-singer-stub