- His song "Samba da Bênção" was featured in a 1966 hit romantic drama by French film director Claude Lelouch Un Homme et une Femme (1966). Some of his best-loved songs included "Berimbau", which he composed with famed Rio de Janeiro poet Vinicius de Moraes, and "Apelo" and "Deixa".
- He has two sons Philippe and Louis-Marcel Baden-Powell de Aquino, both living in Rio de Janeiro.
- He was named after Robert Steven Smyth Baden-Powell, the 19th-century British founder of the Boy Scouts. His family moved to Rio de Janeiro when he was four months old and he grew up listening to all kinds of music: from frevo, to samba, to modinhas, to fado, of course, classical music.
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