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Place of Birth: Águeda, Aveiro District, Portugal
About Angelo Dos Santos
- Angelo Dos Santos was born on September 8, 1940 in Portugal in the City of Agueda.
- At the age of 11, Dos Santos, while under his uncle's custody, Julio Dos Santos, moved to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
- When he was a teenager, Rio De Janeiro experienced the period when Bossa Nova, western swing, and some forms of American Big Band music were combining to give birth to classical orchestral harmonica music.
- The period featured bands such as Borrah Minnevitch and his Harmonica Rascals, and The Harmonicats. Dos Santos taught himself the harmonica and began playing professionally at 19 years old.
- He would eventually specialize in the Chord harmonica, becoming a classical harmonica player, and the co-founder of the Harmonikings.
- His instrument of choice was the Hohner 267/384 CHORD HARMONICA.
- (192 holes, 384 reeds on a pair of stacked wooden combs 23" long) The Harmonikings were a Brazilian harmonica-based trio, which consisted of Angelo Dos Santos (bass harmonica), Ulysses Cazallas(chromatic lead harmonica), and Dario Pacheco (chromatic).
- The trio was formed in 1962 and remained active until 1972 when Dos Santos moved to the United States.
- With a vast repertoire of classical and popular songs, the Harmonikings performed on several top rated Brazilian Television and radio shows of the era.
- The trio also headlined at various social clubs and night clubs located in Rio De Janeiro and São Paulo.
- They recorded a 12 song LP called "No Embalo".
- Ulysses Cazallas continued playing with the São Paulo based Curitiba Harmonica Orquestra until his death in 2006.
- Dos Santos remained a contributor to the group throughout its existence, working on arrangements and occasionally recording.
- He is currently a member of the Garden State Harmonica Club, in Paramus, New Jersey.
- Dos Santos resides in Newark, New Jersey with wife Jandyra Dos Santos, and has a son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren.
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