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José Gomes de Abreu, better known as Zequinha de Abreu was a Brazilian musician and composer.

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André Cibelli Abujamra is a Brazilian score composer, musician, singer, guitarist, actor, and comedian of Lebanese and Italian origin. His father, Antônio Abujamra, was also an actor.

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Geraldo Azevedo is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is famous for his contributions to the Brazilian Popular Music scene, especially his partnerships with Alceu Valença and Zé Ramalho.

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Valdir Azevedo or Waldir Azevedo was a choro conductor and performer, considered to be the most successful musician of this genre.

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Cacilda Campos Borges Barbosa was a Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer. She was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Brazil.

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Belchior was a Brazilian singer and composer. He was one of the first MPB singers from the Brazilian northeast to reach mainstream success, in the early 1970s.

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Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga, commonly known as Braguinha or João de Barro, was a Brazilian songwriter and occasional singer.

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Leci Brandão is a Brazilian politician, singer and composer of Brazilian Popular Music. She is the daughter of Pérola Negra, one of the artists who pioneered in making the Brazilian pagode music popular throughout the land. Her performance of "Quero Sim" won the National Meeting of Samba Composers in 1973.

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Fernando Rocha Brant was a Brazilian poet, lyricist and journalist, born in Caldas, Minas Gerais.

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Jayme Guilherme Caetano Braun was a Brazilian folk musician, poet and composer.

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Joaquim Antônio da Silva Calado, Jr. was a Brazilian composer and flautist.

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Altamiro Carrilho was a Brazilian musician and composer. He is widely regarded as a master flutist and a major representative of the choro genre.

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Márcio Faraco is a Brazilian-born singer, composer, producer and guitar player. After many years of living and working in Brazil, he decided to leave the country for Paris, France.

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Oscar Lorenzo Fernández was a Brazilian composer of Spanish descent. He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro.

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Walter Franco was a Brazilian singer and composer. In 1998 he contributed to the Rosa Passos album Especial Tom Jobim. His 1975 album Revolver was No. 50 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 100 Brazilian albums.

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Edu da Gaita was a Brazilian composer and harmonica player. Apart from releasing multiple solo albums, he also performed with Brazilian composer Radamés Gnattali and his sextet, touring Europa and South America

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Léo Gandelman is a Brazilian saxophonist, composer and producer. He has played with Lulu Santos, and guest appeared in Titãs' single "Televisão". He is also known for composing soundtracks for Brazilian telenovelas, films and TV series.

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Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento, Jr., better known as Gonzaguinha, in Portuguese Little Gonzaga, was a noted Brazilian singer and composer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and he was the son of Luiz Gonzaga, the "king of baião". Gonzaguinha was killed in a car accident on April 29, 1991, in Renascença, state of Paraná, southern Brazil.

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César Guerra-Peixe was a Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor.

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Hans-Joachim Koellreutter was a Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist.

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Alexandre Levy was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor.

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Eduardo de Góes "Edu" Lobo is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and composer.

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Jards Anet da Silva, known as Macalé, is a Brazilian composer, singer and actor, known for his influential role in Brazil's tropicália movement in the 1960s.

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Leopoldo Américo Miguez was a Brazilian composer.

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Remilson Nery is a Brazilian composer and musician.

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Alda de Jesús Oliveira is a Brazilian composer and pedagogue.

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Dilermando Reis was a Brazilian musician, composer, guitarist and music teacher.

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Wagner Tiso Veiga is a musician, arranger, conductor, pianist and composer from Brazil.

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Zé Renato is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.