
In fact, the songs he wanted to learn, like João Gilberto and Carlos Lyra, were too difficult for her.Īt 14 years old, he studied guitar with Paulinho Nogueira and went on studying harmony with Edgar Gianulo, classical guitar with Isaias Sávio and orchestration with Léo Peracchi. However, she could not continue to teach Toquinho. His first guitar classes were taught by Dona Aurora, a piano teacher who also knew how to play guitar. So, he started playing guitar as a solution to these problems. However, this situation caused him some physical and emotional problems. He was always the number one student in his class. As he was very short during his childhood, her mother used to call him 'meu toquinho de gente' ('my piece of person'). His paternal grandfather was from Toro and his paternal grandmother was born in Calabria his maternal grandparents were instead from Mantua.

Toquinho was born in São Paulo, the son of Italian immigrants Diva Bondeolli Pecci and Antonio Pecci, and has one brother, João Carlos Pecci. He is well known for his collaborations, as composer and performer, with Vinicius de Moraes. Antônio Pecci Filho (born July 6, 1946), better known as Toquinho (Portuguese pronunciation: ), is a Brazilian singer and guitarist.
