Chico Batera

Chico Batera, one of the best-known Brazilian percussionists, has worked with top artists like Michel Legrand, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Elis Regina, Quincy Jones, Joni Mitchell, Tom Jobim, João Gilberto, the Doors, Milton Nascimento, Djavan, Chico Buarque (whom he has been accompanying as a regular member of Buarque's band since the 1960s), and Gilberto Gil, among others. Chico Batera started as a professional in 1960 at the famous Carioca club Night and Day. At the also historic Beco das Garrafas he backed up Johnny Alf, the Bossa Três, and Sérgio Mendes, with whom h...