Choro · Reduto · Belém
Mestre Zé Pereira
Cavaquinho player and teacher · n. 1951
“You learn to play the cavaquinho by jamming with others, but you learn the rhythm slowly.”
Zé Pereira played on local radio stations in the 1970s and accompanied seresta singers throughout Old Belém.
Today, he teaches the club’s cavaquinho workshop—free for members—where he has trained more than two hundred students.
Birth
1951, Belém
Instrument
Cavaquinho