Instrutor Tupinambá began training in Capoeira in 2004 under Mestra Márcia Cigarra. He has grown to become a lead student and a lead performer with the ACSF Performance Company. Over the past 15 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. Now he is part of the teaching staff of Instrutores of ACSF Adult/Teen Capoeira.