{"id":4092,"date":"2020-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:46:04","slug":"evaldo-gouveia-singer-songwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=4092","title":{"rendered":"Evaldo Gouveia, singer-songwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Evaldo Gouveira de Oliveira \u2011 a Brazilian singer-songwriter of the genre MPB. – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on May 29, 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Born in Orós, a small city in the Brazilian state of Ceará, he moved with his family to neighboring city of Iguatu with only 3 months old.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

At the age 11, he moved to his birth state capital city of Fortaleza where he started his precocious musical carrer. There in the 1950s he created and joined a band called Trio Nagô with his fellow friends Mário Alves and Epaminondas de Souza, releasing six studio albums and various extended plays.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Eventually, Gouveia went to Rio de Janeiro in order to pursue a solo career, and achieved stardom due to his friendship with fellow singer Altemar Dutra, who helped Gouveia by singing his songs and makind them popular.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

As a solo act, Gouveia released seven studio albums and various extended plays, most o them featuring fellow singers Adelino Moreira and Jair Amorim, even though they never formed a band.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In late 2017, Gouveia suffered a stroke that left him with lifelong sequelae.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

On May 29, 2020, Gouveia died in Fortaleza at the age 91 due to complications brought on by Covid-19.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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Evaldo Gouveira de Oliveira \u2011 a Brazilian singer-songwriter of the genre MPB. – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on May 29, 2020. Born in Orós, a small city in the Brazilian state of Ceará, he moved with his family to neighboring city of Iguatu with only 3 months old. 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