Mestre Acordeon · Lineage tree

Also known as

Bira Almeida · Ubirajara Guimarães Almeida

Description

Capoeira mestre, a student of Mestre Bimba, who founded the Grupo Folclórico da Bahia in 1964 and from 1979 taught capoeira in California, where he opened the school Capoeira-Bahia.

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  Mestre Bimba

  swordsCapoeira Regional Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Single source.

  “Bira Almeida, another student of M.Bimba, settled on the West Coast of the United States.”

  — Assunção, Matthias Röhrig. (2005). Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Artlink info

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