Actor · Music · Orchestrator · Original Music Composer
Born Apr 30, 1914 · Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Active 1939–2008 · Awards: Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil), Order of Rio Branco, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Order of Judicial Merit for Labor (Brazil)
Dorival Caymmi (Salvador, April 30, 1914 – Rio de Janeiro, August 16, 2008) was a Brazilian singer, composer, instrumentalist, poet, painter and actor, active for more than 70 years, beginning in 1933.