José Carioca

José Carioca

First appearance	Saludos Amigos (1942)
Created by	The Walt Disney Company
Voiced by	José Oliveira (original) Rob Paulsen (Disney's House of Mouse)
Information
Aliases	Joe Carioca Zé Carioca
Species	Parrot
Gender	Male
Significant other(s)	Maria Vaz (Only in the comics)
Relatives	Zico and Zeca (nephews)
Nationality	Brazilian

José "Zé" Carioca (/dʒoʊˈzeɪ kærᵻˈoʊkə/; Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ kɐˈɾjɔkɐ] or [kɐɾiˈɔkɐ]) is a Disney cartoon character drawn as an anthropomorphized parrot from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (thus "Carioca", a term which refers to a person born there). José was created in 1942 for the movie Saludos Amigos as a friend of Donald Duck, described by Time as "a dapper Brazilian parrot, who is as superior to Donald Duck as the Duck was to Mickey Mouse". He returned in the 1944 film The Three Caballeros along with Donald and a Mexican rooster named Panchito Pistoles.

From 1942 to 1945 there was a comic strip starring José Carioca.

José appears with Donald and the Aracuan Bird in the "Blame It on the Samba" segment of the 1948 anthology feature Melody Time.