| Tião Carreiro e Pardinho | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Genres | Música Caipira, Brazilian Popular Music |
| Years active | 1958–1993 |
Born in a farm in the outskirts of Araçatuba city, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, Tião Carreiro (real name: José Dias Nunes) started to lear how to play the acoustic guitar at a very young age.
Later, with only 13 years-old, Tião Carreiro went to work in the Giglio Circus, where he made a music pair with his cousin Waldomiro. The circus owner encouraged Tião to learn the viola caipira (a kind of twelve-string acoustic guitar).
Tião Carreiro played along with various other violeiros (twelve-string acoustic guitar players that creates música caipira or Brazilian hillbilly song, alternatively: viola caipira players) and reached fame with Pardinho (real name: Antônio Henrique de Lima), consolidating the music double as Tião Carreiro e Pardinho. Alongside Pardinho, Tião Carreiro is credited as the inventor of the Pagode (not to be confused with the Pagode style of Samba), the rural Pagode (Pagode Caipira).
Among the violeiros such as César Menotti & Fabiano, Chitãozinho & Xororó, Milionário e José Rico among others, Tião Carreiro e Pardinho are viewed as one of the most influential songwriters/singers of the Música Sertaneja style of Brazilian popular music.
Between their major hits we have: Pagode em Brasília (en.: "Pagode in Brasília"), their first success (recorded in 1959), Boi Soberano (en.: "Sovereign Ox"), Filhinho de Papai (en.: "Daddy's Little Son") and Cochilou o Cacimbo Cai (en.: "If You Sleep You Lose the Pipe"). The complete discography sums to up to 45 albums, being, nowadays, considered to be one of the most influential Brazilian caipira pairs of all time.