Milton Banana (born as Antônio de Souza, died in May 22, 1999) is the musician who invented the bossa nova drumming style. An extremely busy session man during the first period of bossa nova, he recorded the historic Chega de Saudade (João Gilberto's debut album), the equally historic Getz-Gilberto, and recorded extensively with Tom Jobim, João Donato, and many others. He also performed gigs every night with people like LuÃs Eça, Johnny Alf Read more on Last.fm