Humberto Teixeira

Humberto Teixeira ( born January 5, 1915 in Iguatu, Ceará, † October 3, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro), actually Humberto Teixeira Cavalcanti, was a Brazilian musician, composer and politician.

Life

He began as a child, to care for the music, especially for the instruments flute and mandolin.

In the 1930s, he moved to Rio de Janeiro with the goal of becoming a doctor. There he composed and published his music. However, his medical studies, he gave up to study law and to make 1943 the Faculdade Nacional de Direito do Rio de Janeiro its conclusion.

1950 Humberto Teixeira was elected congressman for Ceará and sat out with this function for the dissemination of the Brazilian music abroad a.