Background
OVALLE, Jaime was born on August 5, 1894 in Belem, Pará, Brazil.
OVALLE, Jaime was born on August 5, 1894 in Belem, Pará, Brazil.
Educated in finance.
He was self-taught as a composer. As an officer of the Ministério da Fazenda, he resided mostly in New York and London. He was one of the "Second Nationalist Generation" of Brazilian composers along with Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez (1897-1948) and Walter Burle-Marx (1902-1990).