Zito Righi

Born: 1924, Mendes, Brazil Died: 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Isidoro Righi, O “Zico de Paty”, is an Brazilian instrumentalist, conductor and composer. He lived in the city of Rio de Janeiro until 1931 and then moved to Paty do Alferes. He starts playing the cavaquinho and then the saxophone and in 1936 he played in the Conjunto dos Boêmios. In 1943 he returned to Rio de Janeiro to pursue a career as a musician and admired for his skill with the saxophone, in the period from 1950 to 1972, he became famous when he created Zito Righi E Seu Conjunto and later adopted the pseudonym of Bob Fleming.