According to a message shared on his social media pages, Pascoal “passed surrounded by family and fellow musicians.”
Born on June 22, 1936, in Alagoas state in Brazil's poor northeast, he was spared work in the fields as an albino child and instead spent hours learning how to play his father's accordion and listening to birdsong.
He recorded with musicians who became some of Brazil's greatest performers, including singer Elis Regina. Percussionist Airto Moreira took Pascoal on tour to the United States where he met Davis, already a jazz superstar.
“That’s when he started calling me the Mad Albino,“ Pascoal recounted in an interview.
On his own 1977 album “Slaves Mass,“ Pascoal squeezed a piglet to make it squeal for the opening of a track, and a photo of him cuddling the animal appeared on its back cover. Other bizarre instruments he experimented with included children’s toys and cow horns.
“When people hear my music they find it very hard to pinpoint and to pigeonhole it,“ he told Jazzwise magazine in 2022. “When they think I am doing one thing I am already doing something else... It’s very liquid.”
Pascoal wrote, recorded and led groups of musicians well into his 80s. In a show in London in 2022, he encouraged a group of young performers to push the boundaries of their playing before launching into his own furious solos - REUTERS
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