He was born in Pindamonhangaba, in the Paraíba Valley, in the interior of São Paulo, on Monday, 2 March 1964. Son of Francisco dos Santos and Maria Benedita de Lima Santos, he lived his childhood at the Coruputuba farm. He has shown interest in music since he was a child. When he turned six, her older sister, Fia, gave her a Beatles record, a simple compact, and he immediately began to sing along with a cousin. One day, in the farm hen, he made a battery of paint cans, broomstick mics, wooden guitars with strings of thin wire, and the puleiro made a grandstand and also a flap.
