When João Antonio Medeiros Flores was born on 28 September 1944, in Jaguari, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, his father, Aleixo Flores, was 34 and his mother, Doralina Rosa De Medieros, was 33. He married Maria Venir Sudati Flores on 16 January 1974, in Jaguari, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He died on 25 January 1997, in his hometown, at the age of 52.