• About Nestor Amaral

Composer, conductor, singer and actor, he was educated in Brazilian public schools and arrived in the US with Carmen Miranda and her group in 1940. He joined ASCAP in 1956, and his chief musical collaborators included Laurindo Almeida, Ray Gilbert, and Johnny Mercer. His popular-music compositions include: "Old Man and the Sea", "Sambiana", and "Sighs".