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For the rapper, see The Kidd Creole. Thomas August Darnell Browder (born August 12, 1950), known professionally as August Darnell and under the stage name Kid Creole, is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for co-founding Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and subsequently forming and leading Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
A young talent. Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, who took the name PelÃ©, was born on October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil, the son of a minor league soccer player. PelÃ© grew up in an extremely poor neighborhood, where one of the only sources of entertainment for a poor boy was to play soccer, barefoot and with a makeshift ball. Many players on the Brazilian soccer fields gained nicknames that had no apparent meaning.