THE BEVERLYS, the book

It has taken 23 years for Vander Loureiro's book 'THE BEVERLYS' to be published but it finally saw the light of day on 15 December 2018.

The Beverlys were a doo-wop group formed in Penha, a Sao Paulo eastern suburb, in late 1958, exactly 60 years ago. Rock'n'roll was still in its infancy in Brazil.

The Beverlys were all Black and boasted: José Pereira, the guy who had the idea to start a group similar to The Platters that he had seen performing in a movie; Vander Loureiro and his wife Amelia de Paula, Castro & José Mariano. 

to buy a copy of 'The Beverlys' go to: https://www.eviseu.com/pt/livros/142/the-beverlys/

15 December 2018, at Teatro Hangar on Rua Conselheiro Nebias, 305 at Barra Funda.

Vander Loureiro and Olivia Pereira, former wife of José Pereira, the founder of The Beverlys.

Vander, Antonio & Olivia with the book in her hands: Vander autographs 'The Beverlys' for José Luiz de Jesus, who provided most of these photos. 

Zé Luiz, Vander, Antonio & Olivia do a Beverlys-Platters imitation...  

Denise Duran, Iracema Tamashiro, Vander Loureiro, Zé Luiz Jesus, Luiz Amorim aka Carlus Maximus, Olivia Pereira and Antonio. 

Com o advento da Internet no final do século XX ficou mais fácil pesquisar o passado, embora eu tenha começado meus estudos sobre a cronologia do rock nacional por meios mais tradicionais. Em 2004, conheci um grupo de apreciadores de música dos anos 1930s & 40s que se encontravam às terças-feiras, no Páteo do Collegio, centro de São Paulo. Entre os membros da Turma do Pateo havia alguns jovens pesquisadores e, através deles, soube da existência do Arquivo do Estado, onde se podia consultar jornais antigos em microfilme ou encadernados em volumes mensais. Buscava eu a data da vinda de Nat King Cole ao Brasil em 1959, e acabei folheando a coleção do jornal 'Ultima Hora', fundado por Samuel Wainer em 1950, para dar sustentação política ao Presidente Getúlio Vargas em seu período democrático. 

Carlus Maximus, Iracema Tamashiro & Vander Loureiro in a restaurant just opposite A Contemporânea, a musical-instrument shop on Rua General Osório, in 2019, some time before the Covid 19 pandemic hit Brasil. This was one of the last time I had the chance to interact with Vander, for as soon as the Pandemic hit us, Vander moved out of the city and settled in Atibaia-SP with his daughter Vanderly, her husband and child. As Vander never learned how to properly manage a cell-phone, we ended up losing contact.