José Gomes de Abreu, better known as Zequinha de Abreu was a Brazilian musician and composer who in 1917 wrote the famous choro tune Tico-Tico no Fubá. Other well-known tunes he wrote were Branca and Tardes de Lindóia.
Because of the lack of written tradition, Tico-Tico is played in various melodic versions all over the world.
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