Overview

• The family’s message invited fans to honor him by letting a single note ring from any source, from instruments to everyday objects.
• The statement did not specify a cause or location of death.
• Tributes followed from figures including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Caetano Veloso, who hailed his influence on Brazilian music.
• Pascoal’s global profile included work with Miles Davis, featuring on the 1971 album Live-Evil, and a career that defied genre boundaries.
• Born in Alagoas in 1936, he was renowned for experimental sound-making—famously using a piglet on 1977’s Slaves Mass—and he is survived by six children.