Francisco de Assis França, son of Francisco França and Rita França, was born on March 13, 1966, in the hinterland of Pernambuco.

Son of Manuel Gomes da Silva and Firmina Cleto, Cristino Gomes da Silva Cleto – later known as Corisco - was born in 1907, in the town of Matinha de Água Branca, in the State of Alagoas.