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Dorival Caymmi (b. 1914), Brazilian songwriter. Beginning in the 1930s, Salvador-born Caymmi composed a wide variety of highly successful tunes that explored Bahian and Afro-Brazilian culture and were popularized by singers such as Carmen Miranda, Anjos do Inferno, Ângela Maria, João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso, as well as by foreign interpreters such as Andy Williams and Paul Winter.

Caymmi worked in many different musical styles, including sambas, marchas, toadas, modinhas, canções praieiras (fishermen's songs), cocos, sambas de roda, and pontos de candomblé (candomblé invocations).

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Like novelist Jorge Amado, with whom he composed "é doce morrer no mar" (It's Sweet to Die in the Sea), he is closely identified with Bahian culture. Due to his unique style of singing and song-writing and the venerating themes of his music Caymmi is largely responsible for national image.

His songs include folkloric influences fr