Please correct my translation 2 Jaime Ovalle In the begin of the decade of 1910, he moved to Rio de Janeiro. He frequented the neighbourhoods of Lapa, Glória where he met friends in the cafes Lamas, Central or Suísso, that were the refuge of intellectuals and journalists. He was also known as a Left-hander for his manner of playing the guitar. His style was highly praised by Sinhô and Pixinguinha. He belongs to the second generation of nationalist composers. 1911 In Rio de Janeiro, Ovalle is appointed for work in the National Press after recommendation of the senator Artur de Souza Lemos. Being almost 17 years that time, he had to forge a birth certificate dated from 5. August 1892, giving him the age of majority. 1922 In addition to being a composer, Ovalle also wrote poetry and was a friend of Manuel Bandeira who describes his influence on the modernist generation of 1922 as well as on the artist who succeeded it, claiming that Ovalle would have been a “marginal element” for the modernist movement, which acted contaminating his friends and militants with his federatively Brasilian personality. 1926 In the June of that year, Manuel Bandeira invites Mário de Andrade to Rio de Janeiro to meet Ovalle. In his words, “You have to come to Rio only to meet Ovalle and to speak with him”. Bandeira, dealing with compositions of the friend Ovalle, says that he had a guaranted immortality as an author of the song Azulão, and that this piece “represents in the Brazilian music what in poetry is represented by Canção do Exílio (Song of exile). In the lyrics of Gonçalves Dias, as well as in the melody of Ovalle, there is an ineffable of unpretentious things that by the simplicity reach the sublime. (Bandeira, 1997, p. 182) 1935 Apart from being a composer, Ovalle also wrote poetry. According to Bandeira, “Ovalle the Poet was rather different to Ovalle the Musician[...]. The music of Ovalle was a sublimation of feeling and popular forms [...]. Not so his poetry, the roots of which were in the Bible, except of that of amorous lyric, of an extremely sophisticated nature. " 1955 Two days after the composer’s death, on the 11th of September, Carlos Drummond de Andrade publishes in the journal Correio da Manhã (Morning Post) a chronicle entitled "At the Gate of Heaven", later collected in "Speak, the almond tree" (1957) in which he pays homage to Ovalle as “the man who from then on would survive almost as a myth”.