Diego Frazão Torquato, known as the Violin Diego ( 1997 - Duque de Caxias , April 1 of 2010 ) was a Brazilian violinist ... Diego was part of the violin's string orchestra Afroreggae and "became a symbol of hope" for the fight against Leukemia and indignation against the crime of the group's leader, John Evandro da Silva ... From early childhood, Diego lived with diseases such as Meningitis, but nevertheless he never lost the enthusiasm for the music ... He had classical training, but spent feeling in the implementation, which included tears at the funeral of the leader of Afroreggae, reported prominently by the Brazilian press, which would give him notoriety ...

The newspaper O Globo reported the image "as one of the most exciting in recent memory" ... Diego participated in the workshops of the group in Parada de Lucas and became the star of the orchestra's string orchestra Afroreggae, an NGO that works to combat the trafficking of young people ... In December 2009, he participated in the campaign to end years of Rede Globo ...


He was appointed in 2010 to Make a Difference Award from the newspaper O Globo ... His childhood was marked by the environment involved in crime and disease ... The last one led to the hospitalization of 24 days, when he suffered a massive infection after appendix surgery which led to the aggravation of the case ... During this period, he was also admitted to hospital with acute Leukemia Saracuruna but could not do chemotherapy at risk of the procedure ... He depended on the help of machines to regulate blood pressure and had a cardiac arrest ... Shortly after he died ...