Diego Zangado

FOR DIEGO ZANGADO'S FULL BIOGRAPHY, CLICK HERE
With background on both classical and popular music, Diego Zangado, drummer, percussionist, composer and educator from Rio de Janeiro, has become specialized in samba, choro and other Brazilian and latin rythms.
His music education includes symphonic percussion graduation from the “Escola de Musica Villa-Lobos”, one of the most traditional conservatories in Rio de Janeiro, and composition and harmony studies with the electroacoustic music composer Tato Taborda.
He also studied popular music with Eliseu Costa, the solo timpanist of the Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theatre Orchestra and Andre Boxexa, timpanist of the Brazilian National Symphony Orchestra and drummer of “Agua de Moringa”, a well-known group of samba and choro.
Diego became the first timpanist of the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro symphonic band and he was elected the best instrumentist in the 1999 Festvilla, the music festival of the Villa-Lobos Music School.
Diego Zangado plays nowadays with great names of Brazilian popular music, such as:
Francis Hime

Elton Medeiros

Olivia Hime

Casuarina, a samba band that has been appointed as the hottest group in the current samba scene.

And Pedra Lispe, a group that mixes contemporary instrumental music and Brazilian regional armorial music.

Diego also has a duo with Caio Marcio, a guitar player nomited for the 2004 Tim Music Awards.
"O binário baião Pra Ficar Zangado não se limita a esse receituário, muda de andamento navegando na percussão de Diego Zangado."
Tarik de Souza - "O choro envereda por novas trilhas"
Jornal do Brasil - 29 de junho de 2004