João Donato, born João Donato de Oliveira Neto (17 August 1934 in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil – 17 July 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a Brazilian
jazz and
bossa nova pianist, composer and a multi-instrumentalist. João was a celebrated musician and iconic among his peers. Along the piano, he also played accordion, was an arranger and a singer. In his music, he blended additional rhythms such as
baião and
forro as well as incorporated
Caribbean rhythms after living in the US in the 1950s. He first worked with
Altamiro Carrilho and went on to perform with
Antônio Carlos Jobim and
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