Toquinho

Acting

Toquinho

Born 1946-07-06 · São Paulo, Brazil

Antônio Pecci Filho (born July 6, 1946), better known as Toquinho, is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is well known for his collaborations, as composer and performer, with Vinicius de Moraes. Toquinho was born in São Paulo, the son of Italian immigrants Diva Bondioli and Antonio Pecci. He has one brother, João Carlos Pecci. His paternal grandfather was from Toro and his paternal grandmother was born in Calabria; his maternal grandparents were from Mantua. As he was very short as a child, his mother used to call him "meu toquinho de gente" ("my piece of person"), which was the origin of his nickname. His first guitar lessons were with Dona Aurora, a piano teacher who also knew how to play guitar. However, she could not continue to teach Toquinho. At age 14, he began lessons with Paulinho Nogueira and went on to study harmony with Edgar Gianulo, classical guitar with Isaias Sávio and orchestration with Léo Peracchi. He also studied with and befriended Oscar Castro-Neves. Initially playing in colleges, Toquinho's professional career took off in the 1960s at shows promoted by radio personality Walter Silva at the famous Paramount theater in São Paulo. He composed his first recorded song with Chico Buarque entitled "Lua Cheia" (Full Moon). His first big hit was composed in 1970 with Jorge Benjor, "Que Maravilha" (What a Wonder). That same year he was invited by Vinicius de Moraes, co-writer of the worldwide hit "Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl from Ipanema), to participate in a series of shows in Buenos Aires, forming a solid partnership that would continue for 11 years and produce 120 songs, 25 records and over a thousand shows. After the death of Vinicius de Moraes in 1980, Toquinho went on to pursue a solo career, often performing with other talented musicians like Paulinho da Viola, Danilo Caymmi, Paulinho Nogueira and Chico Buarque. Throughout his career, Toquinho composed songs for children, and recorded five albums for young audiences, including Arca de Noé (1980), with Vinicius de Moraes, and Casa de brinquedos (1983). Toquinho continues to record and play, and he remains popular in Brazil and Italy. In 2021, his album Toquinho e Yamandu Costa - Bachianinha (Live at Rio Montreux Jazz Festival) (with Yamandu Costa) won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album. Source: Article "Toquinho" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

They Shot the Piano Player poster
6.5

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.

They Shot the Piano Player

2023

Toquinho Maravilhoso poster
NR

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with his sensitivity. A story that shapes Brazilian popular music.

Toquinho Maravilhoso

2024

Badi poster
9.5

The personal trajectory and the international career of the singer, guitarist, and composer Badi Assad.

Badi

2019

Chico: Brazilian Artist poster
7.8

Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.

Chico: Brazilian Artist

2015

Corinthians: O Time do Povo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Corinthians: O Time do Povo

Vinicius de Moraes poster
6.3

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr. gathered an incomparable cast of partners, singers, friends and rare images from the archives recalling Vinícius’ genial simplicity, with the spontaneity, the humor, and the freedom of a person chatting over a bar table, exactly how the eternal Vinícius would enjoy.

Vinicius de Moraes

2005

Phono 73: A Country and its Music poster
NR

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest against the curtailment of freedom of expression in those dark years of the dictatorship. With the images rescued in 2005, revealing exciting moments, containing the incredible presentations, it brings a team of all greatness and the opportunity to understand the path that Brazilian music has taken to the present day.

Phono 73: A Country and its Music

2005

Musicalmente poster
NR

Witness here a historical moment of Brazilian music. At the end of the 70’s, Vinícius de Moraes, Toquinho, Tom Jobim and Miúcha took off to Italy, to take part in a TV program called Musicalmente Vinícius (Musically Vinícius). In a casual and intimate atmosphere, the quartet talks and sings songs that define the epoch. Great Bossa Nova classics are presented such as "Aguas de Março", "Samba do Avião", "Wave" and the immortal "Garota de Ipanema". Toquinho and Vinícius also play their hits like "Tarde em Itapoã" and "A Gente vai Levando". Don’t miss this exclusive and never before published moment of these true geniouses of MPB.

Musicalmente

1978

Toquinho, Encontros e um Violão poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Toquinho, Encontros e um Violão

2026

Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer

1999

Toquinho - 50 Anos de Carreira poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Toquinho - 50 Anos de Carreira

2016

Sócrates, The Artist poster
NR

Directed by Martin Ainstein as part of the "Destino Futebol" series, the documentary, produced by ESPN Films, tells the moving story of former player and doctor Sócrates, who passed away on December 4, 2011. The documentary features testimonies from members of the former Corinthians player's family, including his brothers, among them the former player Raí, his mother, and his son Gustavo. Journalists Juca Kfouri, José Trajano, and Xico Sá are also interviewed, as well as musician Toquinho and former Corinthians and Brazilian national team teammates such as Zico and Wladimir. The production showcases Sócrates' time studying medicine in Ribeirão, his journey through the teams Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto, Corinthians, Fiorentina, Flamengo, and, of course, the national team. It's a great story told by people who knew the idol, remembering key moments of Sócrates' career as a doctor, player, musician, and writer.

Sócrates, The Artist

2014

Música, poesia e amor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Música, poesia e amor

1976

Naked Eye poster
6.0

“Naked Eye” is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the singer Ney Matogrosso, which proposes to recreate through archive’s images in counterpoint with the current production of the artist, thirty-five years of career marked for inventive and transgressing spectacles, always symphonize with its time. Through a coherent boarding with its intransigent trajectory, the film intends to translate the language musical-corporal of Ney Matogrosso, trying audiovisuals resources that express signs evoked poetical politicians and in the repertoire of the singer. A film-song that that looks for to, ultimately, embody the voices of an artist who searches for a nation.

Naked Eye

2014

Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque poster
8.0

The life and work of Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer and poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda.

Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé

1980

Masters of Bossa Nova: Jobim, Toquinho, Vinicius poster
NR

Legendary bossa nova artists Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Toquinho demonstrate on stage why this infectious Brazilian musical genre, with the lilting, alluring sound, has left its global mark. Performing in 1978, the trio runs through such favorites as "Desafinado," "Samba de Orly," "Agua de Beber" and "Canto de Ossaha," plus two songs that launched the worldwide bossa nova revolution, "Girl from Ipanema" and "Wave."

Masters of Bossa Nova: Jobim, Toquinho, Vinicius

1978

23 Anos em 7 Segundos poster
7.7

The documentary tells the Corinthians passion through one of his most famous moments, when the team, who was 23 years without a title, won the Campeonato Paulista final of 1977 against Ponte Preta. The Timão is and always will be the sole, the better. Win or lose. Same spirit that permeated the loyal fans and has only grown in the 23 years that the Corinthians were without titles.

23 Anos em 7 Segundos

2009

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NR

Esta compilação, gravada em 2001, reúne grandes nomes da MPB interpretando "clássicos" dos barzinhos acompanhados pelo som do violão. Entre eles estão, Ivete Sangalo (Fullgás), Chico César (Filme Triste), Luciana Mello (As Rosas Não Falam) e Ed Motta (Azul Da Cor Do Mar). Destaque para Simone cantando "Samba De Orly", em parceria com Toquinho.

Um Barzinho, Um Violão: ao Vivo

2001