Instrutor Papagaio, originally from Guatemala, began training capoeira with Mestra Márcia Cigarra as a teenager in 2007. He has grown to become a lead student and a lead performer with the ACSF Performance Company.

Instrutor Papagaio has a love and talent to compose and sing capoeira songs and has composed music for ACSF events such as “Boa Alimentação” (good health), and “Nosso Futuro” (our future) for the Kid’s Batizado in 2010. He has composed Capoeira songs on his own earning him several awards at Capoeira song competitions.

In 2008, he began assistant teaching in the kids’ and teens’ Capoeira classes and, in 2010, he started leading classes for both youth and teens, including the Sunday Community Class. He has continued to grow as an instructor of Capoeira and serves as an important role model to the numerous youths he works with in San Francisco schools.

Instrutor Papagaio has taught kids, teens, and adult classes in San Francisco, and has been part of ACSF’s Performance Company for many years. Over the past 20 years, he’s participated in over a hundred educational performances throughout the Bay Area. In August 2021 he received the next level of Purple/Brown cord at an International historical event hosted at ABADA Capoeira San Francisco attended virtually by Mestres and Mestrandos of ABADA with a special presence of Mestre Camisa via Zoom.