José Roberto "Zero" Alves Freitas[1] (born c. 1955) is a Brazilian businessman whose record collection of over eight million discs is said to be the largest in existence.
[2] When he was a child, his father bought a hi-fi stereo that came with 200 albums, thus kindling Freitas's interest in the area.
[4] Freitas studied music composition at college then took over the family transport business which ran buses in the state of São Paulo.
[3] The extent of Freitas's collection was first revealed to the world after details were published in an article in The New York Times Magazine in August 2014.
These enable him to buy a diverse range of material such as the collection of the late Bob Hope and the 100,000 albums of Cuban music he has acquired.
His staff joke that the island of Cuba must be rising due to the weight of material that Freitas has removed.
[3] In addition to transport, Freitas runs a business providing audiovisual systems for concerts and other public events.