The life and works of Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho (1897-1973), known as Pixinguinha, the father of Brazilian Popular Music. A misunderstood genius and far ahead of his time, his importance was only recognized many years later. The life of the famous musician started as a lower middle class black boy, and is told from his first anthological performances on the flute; the composition of his many masterpieces, including “Carinhoso”; his six-month stay in Paris in 1922 with the resounding success of his ensemble Os Oito Batutas; his arrangements as the first music director for American Victor in the 1930s; his decay and resurgence in the 1940s; the acclaim in the 60s by the new generations of bossa nova and jazz musicians; and his death in the Nossa Senhora da Paz church in Rio de Janeiro in the middle of the 1973 carnival, during the Banda de Ipanema parade.

Seu Jorge, Taís Araujo, Milton Gonçalves, Danilo Ferreira, Agatha Moreira, Tuca Andrada, Klebber Toledo