Moacir Santos
Born in 1926 in Flores do Pajeú (Pernambuco), Moacir Santos became a composer and then musical director of Rádio Nacional in Rio in the 1950s, and taught Baden Powell and Nara Leão, among others. Settled near Los Angeles from 1967, he recorded for Blue Note in the 1970s and died in Pasadena in 2006.