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    Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈɛdsõ aˈɾɐ̃tʃiz du nasiˈmẽtu]; 23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), better known by his nickname Pelé...
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    Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha GCIH, OMC (9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaʁmẽj...
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    one album, Em Som Maior. Then he joined Trio Novo (Airto Moreira, Heraldo do Monte, Theo de Barros) and in 1967 the group, renamed Quarteto Novo, released...
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    23 with the publication of her first novel, Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language...
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    novel by celebrated Brazilian author Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, and Sangue do Meu Sangue (1969), a memorable melodrama engraved in Brazilian pop culture...
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    Iglesias reached a million spins on U.S. radio becoming the first Latin act to do so. The video to the song "Quizás" was the first Spanish-language music video...
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    Serrinha Jorge Mautner Maria Judith Zuzarte Cortesão Luiz Costa Lima Mangueira do Amanhã Manoel de Barros Marília Pêra Milton Santos Moacyr Scliar Nelson...
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    Belanciano, Vítor (18 December 2011). "Cesária Évora Morreu a senhora música do mundo". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 17 October 2023. Hurley-Glowa,...
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    João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira – Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist...
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    other students: he went to Japan and bought professional video equipment to do the job. He presented it and graduated with the minimum acceptable grade....
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    Jornalggn.com. "Mulher de Caetano fala sobre polêmica e pede fim dos ataques do MBL". Musica.uol.com.br. "Chamado de pedófilo e aborto aos 16: O polêmico...
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    Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira, or simply Mangueira, is a samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school was founded...
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    Milton Silva Campos do Nascimento (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmiwtõ ˈsiwvɐ ˈkɐ̃pus du nasiˈmẽtu]; born October 26, 1942), also known as Bituca, is a Brazilian...
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    Mutantes, Hoje É o Primeiro Dia do Resto da Sua Vida (Philips). After releasing the Mutantes e Seus Cometas no País do Baurets, Lee was ejected from the...
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    de Silvio Santos no show do Tom [email protected]". YouTube. January 24, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2022. "Novo Sílvio do Pânico É Muito Impressionante"...
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    While in Brazil, he married Maria Lucia Proença. Elizete Cardoso's Canção do Amor Demais -- a seminal album in the development of bossa nova -- consists...
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    Industry Museum, Manchester, UK, 2022 MAXXI, Rome, 2021/22; Serviço Social do Comércio, Sao Paulo, 2022/23; Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, 2021/22;...
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    Boal argues that traditional theatre is oppressive since spectators usually do not get a chance to express themselves and that a collaboration between both...
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    directed by Jom Tob Azulay. In 1994, they performed a tribute concert to Mangueira school of samba. French filmmaker Georges Gachot completed a documentary...
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    emblematic group in the Brazilian popular music. In 1982 the single "Festa Do Interior" from the double album Fantasia became her biggest ever hit, going...
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    discuss] The most prominent of these later metaphysical poems is A Máquina do Mundo (The World's Machine). The poem deals with an anti-Faust referred to...
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    Santa Morta (short) 2008 Romance de Vila do Conde (short) 2010 Painéis de São Vicente de Fora, Visão Poética 2011 Do Visível ao Invisível (short segment from...
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    Yellow (2002) Da Cor do Pecado (2004) Nina (2004) América (2005) Journey to the End of the Night (2006) La Virgen Negra (2008) Doce do Pai LULA (2012) Serra...
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    Serrinha Jorge Mautner Maria Judith Zuzarte Cortesão Luiz Costa Lima Mangueira do Amanhã Manoel de Barros Marília Pêra Milton Santos Moacyr Scliar Nelson...
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    Salvador to this day. Selected works include: The Country of Carnival (O País do Carnaval, 1931) Cacau (1933) Sweat (Suor, 1934) Jubiabá (1935) Sea of Death...
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    1995: Uma palavra 1997: Terra 1998: As cidades 1998: Chico Buarque da Mangueira 1999: Chico ao vivo 2001: Chico e as cidades (DVD) 2001: Cambaio 2002:...
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    resign after a year in office. He joined the newly created SPHAN (Servico do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – National Service of Historic and...
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    Serrinha Jorge Mautner Maria Judith Zuzarte Cortesão Luiz Costa Lima Mangueira do Amanhã Manoel de Barros Marília Pêra Milton Santos Moacyr Scliar Nelson...
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    Pedro (November 30, 2018). "Baco Exu do Blues, Gilberto Gil, Duda Beat: os 25 melhores discos brasileiros do segundo semestre de 2018, segundo a APCA"...
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    singles: "Preta" with Seu Jorge, "Oyá Por Nós" with Margareth Menezes and "Sol do Sul". That same year, writer and intellectual Camille Paglia, who had an intellectual...
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