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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Zequinha de Abreu
Person · male · Brazil · Santa Rita do Passa Quatro · born 1880 · died 1935 · recording since 2024
Brazilian musician and composer (1880-1935)
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Also known as Zequinha de Abreu · José Abreu · José Gomes de Abreu · Z. Abreu · Z.Abreu · Zequinha Abreu · +1 more
Timeline
3 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1880s
1930s
2020s
· Debut release
Debut release: Tico tico no fubá
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography84 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1324984742
Biography
José Gomes de Abreu, better known as Zequinha de Abreu (September 19, 1880 – January 22, 1935), was a Brazilian musician and composer.
Abreu was born in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, São Paulo state. He is best known for the famous choro tune "Tico-Tico no Fubá" (1917), whose original title was "Tico-Tico no Farelo". Other well-known tunes he wrote were "Branca" and "Tardes em Lindóia."
Tico-Tico is played in various melodic versions all over the world. Abreu died in São Paulo, aged 54.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 18 | 78.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | -89 | 5.2th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups)
Single · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Tico tico no fubáSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 2:361Tico tico no fubá2:36 | 21 June 2024 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Zequinha de Abreu head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 18 | 78.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | -89 | 5.2th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zequinha_de_Abreu%2C_1961.tifaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/15c94a8c-a387-4393-9bc7-925d9e14be61discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/15c94a8c-a387-4393-9bc7-925d9e14be61core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167752genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167752seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zequinha_de_Abreubiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zequinha_de_Abreu
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Unknown Unknown · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q167752 · MusicBrainz: 15c94a8c-a387-4393-9bc7-925d9e14be61
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