Evaldo Gouveia de Oliveira (8 August 1928 – 29 May 2020), better known as simply Evaldo Gouveia, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter of the genre MPB.^[1]

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Evaldo Gouveia
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Birth name	Evaldo Gouveia de Oliveira
Born	(1928-08-08)August 8, 1928 Orós, Ceará, Brazil
Died	May 29, 2020(2020-05-29) (aged 91) Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Genres	MPB
Instrument(s)	Vocals, classical guitar
Years active	1940s–2011
Labels	Abril Cultural, RCA Camden, RGE, Som Livre

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Born in Orós, a small city in the Brazilian state of Ceará, he moved with his family to neighboring city of Iguatu when only 3 months old.^[1]

At the age of 11, he moved to his birth state capital city of Fortaleza where he started his precocious musical career. There in the 1950s he created and joined a band called Trio Nagô with his fellow musicians and friends Mário Alves and Epaminondas de Souza, releasing six studio albums and various extended plays.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Eventually, Gouveia went to Rio de Janeiro in order to pursue a solo career, and achieved stardom due to his friendship with fellow singer Altemar Dutra, who helped Gouveia by singing his songs and making them popular.^[1][2]

As a solo act, Gouveia released seven studio albums and various extended plays, most of them featuring fellow singers Adelino Moreira and Jair Amorim, even though they never formed a band.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

In late 2017, Gouveia suffered a stroke that left him with lifelong sequelae.^[2]

On 29 May 2020, Gouveia died in Fortaleza at the age 91 due to complications brought on by COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.^[1]