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Mestre Acordeon

Brazil
Born 1943, Salvador, Bahia

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.

Teachers (1)

  • 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

Sources

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

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M6A2A5ZB1N3HS2EFDQE98JHA
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Mestre Acordeon. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M6A2A5ZB1N3HS2EFDQE98JHA - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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