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    Companhia das Letras. Veloso, Caetano (2005). O mundo não é chato. São Paulo, Brazil: Companhia das Letras. Morais Junior Lui Morais, Luís Carlos de (2004)...
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    Chicago Review Press, Inc. ISBN 1-55652-409-9 First published in Brasil by Companhia das Letras. 1990. McGowan, Chris and Pessanha, Ricardo. The Brazilian...
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    City's Plaza de Toros, two nights at Monterrey's Auditorio Coca-Cola, and two nights (with over 50,000 attendees each) at the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata in...
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    da era industrial. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras. ISBN 978-85-7164-588-2. OCLC 859535737. Salgado, Sebastião; Buarque de Holanda, Francisco; Saramago...
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    Som Maior. Then he joined Trio Novo (Airto Moreira, Heraldo do Monte, Theo de Barros) and in 1967 the group, renamed Quarteto Novo, released an album that...
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    including Sete de Setembro, Canto do Rio, São Paulinho, and Ameriquinha. Pelé led Bauru Atlético Clube juniors (coached by Waldemar de Brito) to two São...
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    Escudos Banknote". Banco de Cabo Verde. 12 September 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2023. "Aeroporto de Cabo Verde recebe o nome de Cesaria Évora". Pop & Arte...
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    Walter Salles (category Mass media people from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Bear winning film Central Station. Salles was born on 12 April 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic...
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    secondary school Portuguese teacher. In 1944, he married Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, a fellow teacher. The two worked together and had five children...
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    brother's death. Meirelles was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Meirelles' father, José de Souza Meirelles, is a gastroenterologist who travelled regularly to Asia and...
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    Peabody & Sherman (2014) Spy (2015) Brasil: uma biografia (in Portuguese). Companhia das Letras. 5 May 2015. ISBN 9788543803142. Retrieved May 16, 2016. Global...
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    documentaries as “Gilberto Gil – Viva São João” (2002), “Maria Bethania-Pedrinha de Aruanda” (2007) and "André Midani - from vinyl to download" ( 2015). Andrucha...
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    [viˈnisjuʃ dʒi moˈɾajʃ] (19 October 1913 – 9 July 1980), better known as Vinícius de Moraes (Portuguese pronunciation: [viˈnisjuʒ dʒi moˈɾajʃ]) and nicknamed O...
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    Zeca Pagodinho (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    in the genres of samba and pagode. Born in the neighborhood of Irajá, Rio de Janeiro, Zeca Pagodinho grew up around the most traditional manifestations...
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    Silvio Santos (category Businesspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    also involved in other areas such as music and politics. Born in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the former capital city of Brazil and former headquarters of the...
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    Clarice Lispector (category Deaths from cancer in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    Pernambuco, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio, she began publishing...
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    Maurício Araújo de Sousa (Portuguese: [mawˈɾisju dʒi ˈsowzɐ]; born October 27, 1935) is a Brazilian cartoonist and businessman who has created over 200...
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    "raro"". Folha de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Grupo Folha. Retrieved April 27, 2014. "Depois do 'Oscar', governo muda regras do cinema". Folha de S. Paulo (in...
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    Milton Nascimento (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    born in the boarding house Dona Augusta in the neighborhood of Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, where his mother, Maria do Carmo do Nascimento, was a maid. Maria...
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    ISBN 978-0-275-99247-7. Castro, Ruy (2005). Carmen - Uma Biografia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras. ISBN 978-8535907605. Dennison, Stephanie; Shaw, Lisa (2004)...
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    audiences with the song "Reconvexo", in which he says "quem não sentiu o swing de Henri Salvador?" ("who hasn't felt the swing of Henri Salvador?"). Veloso...
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    term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre. Augusto...
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    Durand, Fabien (October 13, 2005). "Cérémonie de remise des insignes de Grand Officier dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur à Gilberto Gil". Culture...
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    Árvore (Decca/ECM, 1973) Academia de Danças (EMI, 1974) Corações Futuristas (Odeon, 1976) Carmo (EMI, 1977) Dança das Cabeças, with Naná Vasconcelos...
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    Cândido Mendes de Almeida Carlos Drummond de Andrade Carlota Albuquerque Cazuza Cesária Évora Companhia de Danças Folclóricas Aruanda Demônios da Garoa...
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    acquired the Sítio de Santo Antonio da Bica, a 365,000 m2 (90-acre) estate in the Barra de Guaratiba neighborhood on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Burle...
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    (Original soundtrack – Raul Seixas & Paulo Coelho) 1974 – Gita 1975 – 20 Anos de Rock (Reissue of Os 24 Maiores Sucessos da Era do Rock) 1975 – Novo Aeon 1976...
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    Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE GCIH (Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛl doliˈvɐjɾɐ]; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter...
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    He won the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro twice, and the Prêmio ACIE de Cinema once. Babenco was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Mar del Plata...
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    roving theatre troupe with roots in a form of literature known as literatura de cordel ("twine literature")). The original movement named itself mangue bit...
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