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    Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His...
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    Iglesias is one of the best-selling Latin music artists with estimated sales of over 70 million records worldwide. He has had five Billboard Hot 100...
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    after graduating, Boal was asked to work with the Arena Theatre in São Paulo, southeast Brazil. Boal was in charge of directing plays along with other...
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    as the most serious attempt at the introspective novel," wrote the São Paulo critic Sérgio Milliet. "For the first time, a Brazilian author goes beyond...
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    Festival with his song "Alegria, Alegria". on which he was backed by São Paulo group Beat Boys; along with the performance of his friend Gilberto Gil,...
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    Folha de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 July 2019. Homem de Mello, Zuza (2001). Folha Explica – João Gilberto (in Portuguese). São Paulo: PubliFolha...
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    in São Paulo. It featured songs from Cazuza's solo career as well as from his time as frontman of Barão Vermelho. The musical starring Emílio Dantas was...
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    vendor, he left the broadcaster job a month later. Later he went to São Paulo and after taking several different jobs that included prize raffling, he...
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    influenced by Miranda's Hollywood films. In 2009 she was the subject of São Paulo Fashion Week and a short film, Tutti Frutti, by German photographer Ellen...
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    theatrical sketches. Three years later, he became friends with the brothers Paulo and Haroldo Tapajós, with whom he wrote his first musical compositions,...
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    stay in São Paulo, Brazil, permanently. His first solo feature film as a director was O Rei da Noite (King of the Night) (1975), starring Paulo José and...
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  • Paraná (guitar player, known as Kadu Lambach) and Paulo Guimarães (keyboard player, known as Paulo Paulista) to form Legião Urbana. Renato was the lead...
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    Pelé (category Deaths from cancer in São Paulo (state))
    meaning in Portuguese. Pelé grew up in poverty in Bauru in the state of São Paulo. He earned extra money by working in tea shops as a servant. Taught to play...
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    29, 2013. Allmusic biography Caramaschi, Ulisses (2013). "Obituary: Paulo Emílio Vanzolini (1924–2013)". Phyllomedusa 12 (2): 83–88. Levi HW (1988). "The...
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    scene, opposite Paulo Autran. Throughout this decade, Montenegro won her second and third Best Actress in Television Awards, by the São Paulo Association...
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    Nelson Triunfo Marcantônio Vilaça Otávio Afonso Orlando Miranda Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes Paulo Moura Pixinguinha Roberto Corrêa Ruy Guerra Sérgio Ricardo Tatiana...
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    locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Rome. He wrote and studied literature as a child and found music through...
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    Marina Lima in the 1990s. She had one adopted son, Gabriel. Gal died in São Paulo on 9 November 2022, at the age of 77. The cause of death was not shared;...
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    Fernando Meirelles (category Mass media people from São Paulo)
    remember him." Meirelles about his brother's death. Meirelles was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Meirelles' father, José de Souza Meirelles, is a gastroenterologist...
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    (February 27, 1998). "Música: "Nascimento" ganha Grammy em NY". Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved November 26, 2022. "Milton Nascimento". Dicionário Cravo Albin...
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    He was born in Salvador (Bahia), Brazil, and died of pancreatitis in São Paulo. Every year on Seixas' birthday, legions of fans, including thousands of...
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    Nelson Triunfo Marcantônio Vilaça Otávio Afonso Orlando Miranda Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes Paulo Moura Pixinguinha Roberto Corrêa Ruy Guerra Sérgio Ricardo Tatiana...
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    Confissões. This was also the first film which Oliveira made with producer Paulo Branco, who would go on to produce the majority of Oliveira's film, and...
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    editions, it was founded by University of Brasília's diplomat Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes in 1965 and is the oldest film festival in Brazil. The winners...
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    Schwarcz (inauguration pending) Rosiska Darcy Ignácio de Loyola Brandão Paulo Niemeyer Filho Ruy Castro Celso Lafer Marco Lucchesi Jorge Caldeira Fernanda...
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    Sebastião Salgado (category University of São Paulo alumni)
    earning a BA degree from UFES, a master's degree from the University of São Paulo in Brazil, and a PhD from University of Paris. He began work as an economist...
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    António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary...
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    Jardel Filho (Italian stage theater), Lima Barreto (cinema) and Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes (auditorium). The Sérgio Milliet Library was the first in the city...
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    employed by the Brazilian division of Unilever, Gessy-Lever. He moved to São Paulo in 1965 and had a hit single when his song "Louvação" (which later appeared...
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    telenovela was a big hit and Glória won the Best Newcomer Award from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics. During the telenovela's original broadcast,...
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