Flora Purim & Airto memorabilia - DownBeat 1975 Poll

Flora Purim & Airto Moreira were among the winners of the DownBeat 1975 Readers Poll.
For the second consecutive year, they topped the Female Singer (Flora got 911 votes) and Percussion (Airto received the extraordinary ammount of 2399 votes) categories, respectively.
The complete results of the 40th Down Beat Readers Poll were printed in the December 18, 1975, issue.
Female Singer
911 Flora Purim
724 Sarah Vaughan
519 Ella Fitzgerald
280 Urszula Dudziak
266 Cleo Laine
259 Minnie Riperton
253 Dee Dee Bridgewater
237 Carmen McRae
217 Joni Mitchell
210 Aretha Franklin
175 Betty Carter
168 Esther Satterfield
162 Phoebe Snow
158 Roberta Flack
126 Jean Carn

Percussion
2399 Airto
378 Mtume
343 Dom Um Romao
199 Guilherme Franco
175 Bill Summers
129 Ruth Underwood
94 Ray Barretto
84 Ralph MacDonald
81 Ramon Lopez
77 Jerry Gonzalez
67 Billy Cobham
67 Sue Evans
57 Colin Walcott
53 Carl Palmer
52 Milford Graves
46 Alphonse Mouzon
42 Mongo Santamaria