g, 1930-2006 BR
Musician
A.k.a. Sivuca
Severino Dias de Oliveira (26 March 1930 in Itabaiana, Brazil – 14 December 2006 in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil), popularly known as Sivuca, was a Brazilian accordionist and guitarist. In addition to his home state of Paraíba, and cities Recife and Rio de Janeiro, he worked and lived in Paris, Lisbon, and New York on and off throughout his life.Sivuca and Hermeto Pascoal, both versatile multi-instrumentalists with albinism, have worked together and are sometimes confused with each other.He was hospitalized on 12 December and died on 14 December 2006, after a two-year struggle with cancer.