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Encantado com o desvelo da produtora ("ela é muito cuidadosa"), Seu Argemiro, nascido na Piedade em 1923, mas cobra criada de Oswaldo Cruz desde 1938, está orgulhoso com a estréia caprichada quase aos 80. Técnico em refrigeração ("trabalhei na Cassio Muniz, no Ponto Frio", enumera) Argemiro aprendeu pandeiro "no olho".
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Enchanted by the producer’s attention (“she is very attentive”), Seu Argemiro, who was born in Piedade in 1923, but who has lived in Oswaldo Cruz since 1938, is proud of his refined debut at the age of nearly 80. A refrigeration technician (“I worked at Cassio Muniz, for Ponto Frio", he recalls) Argemiro learned pandeiro "just by looking". His idol on the instrument was Neco. As far as composing is concerned, he knew the master Paulo Benjamim de Oliveira (Paulo da Portela), the undisputed leader of the school. "He was always clipping me round the ear, I was small and liked being mischievous, talking nonsense and he was strict, always wore a tie, wouldn’t allow misbehavior,” he recalls. Manacéa and Francisco Santana, the latter his future partner, also won the admiration of Argemiro, who "just played samba for the fun of it, to sing in the bars" until his "A Chuva Cai" (written with Casquinha) became a hit sung by Beth Carvalho, in 1978. Two years earlier (he remembers the precise date, 8th December 1976, "the day of Our Lady of Conception ") he had joined the Portela Old Guard, where he would excel in pandeiro duos with Alberto Lonato. "His rhythmic sketches became legendary," says Marisa admiringly.
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