João Donato

João Donato, born João Donato de Oliveira Neto (17 August 1934 in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil – 17 July 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist, composer and a multi-instrumentalist. João was a celebrated musician and iconic among his peers.

Along the piano, he also played accordion, was an arranger and a singer. In his music, he blended additional rhythms such as baião and forro as well as incorporated Caribbean rhythms after living in the US in the 1950s. He first worked with Altamiro Carrilho and went on to perform with Antônio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto .