Jayme Guilherme Caetano Braun (

Bossoroca Bossoroca is a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 6,205 (2020 est.) in an area of 1610.57 km². The name comes from the Guarani language, and may mean erosion. It is located 524 km we ...

, January 30, 1924 –

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, July 8, 1999) was a Brazilian

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

ian,

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

. Jayme was the most famous

payador The ''payada'' is a folk music tradition native to Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brasil, and south Paraguay as part of the ''Gaucho'' culture and literature. In Chile it is called ''paya'' and performed by '' huasos''. It is a performance of imp ...

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and had great participation in the dissemination of the gaúcho culture in Brazil and the world. Between 1973 and 1988, he had a weekly radio program on Radio Guaíba.

Bibliography

*1954 - ''Galpão de Estância'' *1958 - ''De Fogão em Fogão'' *1965 - ''Potreiro de Guaxos'' *1966 - ''Bota de Garrão'' *1966 - ''Brasil Grande do Sul'' *1966 - ''Passagens Perdidas'' *1990 - ''Payador e Troveiro'' *1996 - ''50 Anos de Poesia''

Discography

*1993 - ''Paisagens Perdidas'' *1993 - ''Poemas Gaúchos'' 1924 births 1999 deaths Brazilian composers 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers Brazilian people of German descent Culture in Rio Grande do Sul People from Rio Grande do Sul 20th-century composers {{Brazil-composer-stub