Brazil and Argentina are the two South American countries where blues music has found a greater concentration of artists willing to keep the flame of the genre burning, not without difficulties and lack of support, a fact that has turned the work of these musicians into true personal and pionner adventures. Born in Cananeira, a coast town in southern Brazil, Big Chico is one of those artists. As he could not be otherwise, he started at school playing tambourine in a samba group, but soon his soul discovered other temptations. The blues appeared to him from the breaths of Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson, he created his own style listening to Walter Horton and especially George "Harmonica" Smith and the sounds of the west coast, the jump blues and the Rhythm & Blues from Pacific coast. His classicism allows him to affirm that he was influenced by discovering the saxophone of Charlie Parker and Maceo Parker and his career took a decisive step forward when he met Marcos Ottaviano, perhaps the greatest blues guitarist in Brazil with his band Blue Jeans, and he started learning to play guitar. In 1992, Big Chico began his professional career as a blues musician and that was when he came into contact with his friend and mentor Chico Blues, producer and founder of the Chico Blues Records label, who produced the album "My New Blues" recorded in the United States in 2013 and which featured the collaboration of guitarist Lurrie Bell with whom he had also made a successful tour. The following year the album "Blues Dream" was released, supported on the recording by William Clarke's band. Perhaps the harmonica player most admired by Big Chico has been Rod Piazza, which is why in 2021 he released the album "Big Chico Plays Rod Piazza", twelve cuts composed by the Californian and leader of The Mighty Flyers. In this "30 Years of Blues", Big Chico celebrates three decades on the road and does so by recovering Piazza's songs again with eleven songs with an excellent band and personally in exceptional shape. A classic west-coast blues album that highlights Chico's generosity with his roots and, most importantly in South America the blues sounds with strength and conviction.