Baiano was a member of the small group of first professionals of the recording business in Brazil (together with Cadete, Nozinho, Mário Pinheiro, and Eduardo das Neves). He recorded the very first Brazilian album with Xisto Bahia's lundu Isto É Bom, classified as the number one of Casa Edison's (the first recording company of Brazil) first catalog, of 1902 (Zon-o-phone 10.001). He is featured in that catalog in the first 73 records, 54 small plates, and 19 big ones, some of them rarities. Some of them: "Bolim Bolacho," "Sorvete Laiá," "Chula Fluminense," "Não Empurre," "Seu Anastácio," "As Mocinhas Desta Terra," "O Fazendeiro," "Fado Português," "Padeiro," "Noivo em Cócegas," "Laranjas da Sabina," "Gondoleiro do Amor," "Esteja Quieto," "Perdão Emília." In the same catalog, Baiano is featured in 68 phonograms and in six with Cadete: "Os 2 Crioulos," "Laura," "Desafio Português," "Serenata No Cemitério," "Chegadinho," and "O Genro E A Sogra." The December 1912 catalog brought Baiano in the lundu "Os Colarinhos" in the cançonetas "O Taco," "A Pombinha de Lulu," "A Balança," and "Capoeira," "Feijoada Completa" (in duet with Eduardo das Neves) and "Canção do Ébrio." Baiano recorded many other songs, but the first recorded samba, "Pelo Telefone" (allegedly by Donga and Mauro de Almeida) for the Carnaval of 1917, deserves special mention for its outstanding historic importance and popular acclamation. He also sang in the theater of the Passeio Público and in the Circo Spinelli and worked in small films like #O Cometa and #A Seresta Caipora (in 1910) and #José do Fandango Quer Cantar and #Serrana (in the next year). Some of his recordings done between 1902 and 1904 (for Zon-o-phone) and 1904 and 1918 (for Odeon) were re-released in 1977 by EMI-Odeon on the LP Bahiano in the Monumentos da Música Popular Brasileira series. ~ Alvaro Neder, Rovi