Dudu do Banjo

Francisco Eduardo de Souza Pereira or Dudu (born 4 June 1935, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian banjoist and guitar player known as "the king of banjo".

[citation needed] Dudu's artistic career started in São Paulo in the 1950s with the Paulistânia Jazz Band, in which he played banjo with saxophonist Booker Pittman and other musicians of different nationalities.

After participating in other bands and achieving renown as a traditional jazz banjo player, Dudu joined the novelty that was rock'n'roll, creating The Avalons in 1957.

In 1962 Dudu went to Europe, beginning in Paris where he joined the drummer Ney Banda de Castro with Brazilian Batucada, making several seasons in the venue La Grande Séverine.

In the late 1990s, he founded the band Família Papadú with his sons Emanuel and Icaro.