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      Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos, musician and composer is internationally recognized as the greatest percussionist in the world. Naná is a Pernambuco from Recife, born on August 2, 1944.

      He was a master of the berimbau, a well-known percussion instrument of African origin, which accompanies capoeira. He began to take an interest in the berimbau, casually, after participating in the folk musical Memórias de Outros Cantores, held in 1966 in Recife.

        Naná Vasconcelos Square

      The possibility of the sound plaza, is not to delimit what kind of music can be produced there, nor by who is being touched. That is, any musician can express to the public his musicality, experiencing everyday life in the most diverse way possible.

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