César Gonçalves, singer, songwriter and journalist was born on January 26, 1964, in the municipality of Catolé do Rocha in Paraiba, situated 450 km from the capital João Pessoa. Chico César, as he is known, is the youngest of seven children by Mrs. Etelvina and Mr. Francisco Gonçalves.
Fernando José Spencer Hartmann was born in Recife on 17 January 1927, in a residence on Augusta St (today destroyed) in the São José neighbourhood, to Niconedes Brasil Hartmann and Maria Serafina Spencer Lopes Neto.