Bezerra da Silva [SEP] place of death
Bezerra da Silva
José Bezerra da Silva (February 23, 1927 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil – January 17, 2005 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian samba musician of the partido alto style.
Biography.
Bezerra da Silva played zabumba as a child and sang coco in Recife. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1942, and in 1950, "Rádio Clube do Brasil" hired him as a session musician. In 1960 he became a member of the "Orquestra Copacabana Discos" of Sao Paulo
da Silva (born 1981), Brazilian footballer
- Paulinho — José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior (born 1988)
- José Bezerra da Silva (1927-2005)
- José Bezerra Coutinho (1910–2008), Catholic Bishop of Brazil