Teixeira is recognized as a specialist in baião as well as "master of costumes and popular North-Eastern trends.

[5] Three years later, he won the Meu Pecadinho during the O Malho carnival music competition.

[8] By this time, Teixeira had already written popular songs including standard sambas and modinhas.

An account stated that this song aimed to introduce the music and dance of the northeast to the rest of Brazil.

[10] Baião created a new dance craze in Brazil that took three years for Gonzaga to record.

[9] Other popular songs that Teixeira and Gonzaga composed included Mangaratiba, Juazeiro, Paraíba, Qui nem jiló, Xanduzinha, Lorota boa, Assum black, Estrada de Canindé, and Respect Januário.