Zabé da Loca

Zabé da Loca is a brazilian fife player from Monteiro, State of Paraíba. Isabel Marques da Silva, or simply Zabé, was born in 1924 in Buíque, a small town in the sertão of Pernambuco, another state in the northeast of Brazil, When Zabé was still young she moved to Monteiro, where she lived in a small cave (denominated regionally as "loca") for twenty five years with her two sons. Zabé plays the fife since she was 10, but only sixty nine years later her talent was recognized by a social project called Project Dom Helder Câmara