Uday Vellozo, known as Benito di Paula, was born in 1941 in Nova Friburgo,
Brazil. He began singing in hotels and nightclubs, worked as a crooner in Rio de
Janeiro clubs in the 1960s, and later settled in São Paulo. He recorded
“Final”with Portinho & sua Orquestra in 1956, and a 1968 single with “Canção
para o Nosso Amor” later became part of the soundtrack of the 1969 telenovela
Nino, o Italianinho. Playing piano, he blended samba with boleros and Latin
American rhythms, and in the 1970s he released Um Novo Samba (1973), Gravado ao
Vivo (1974) and Benito di Paula e Seus Convidad...