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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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    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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    Antunes Mãe Stella de Oxóssi Maria Cecília Geyer Maria Delith Balaban Mário Covas Paixão Côrtes Paulo Fontainha Geyer Romero Magalhães Washington Novaes 2000...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Antunes Mãe Stella de Oxóssi Maria Cecília Geyer Maria Delith Balaban Mário Covas Paixão Côrtes Paulo Fontainha Geyer Romero Magalhães Washington Novaes 2000...
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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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    (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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    Antunes Mãe Stella de Oxóssi Maria Cecília Geyer Maria Delith Balaban Mário Covas Paixão Côrtes Paulo Fontainha Geyer Romero Magalhães Washington Novaes 2000...
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    Pascoal agora quer ser pop - 23/02/2014 - Serafina - Folha de S.Paulo". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-01-10. "Aline e Hermeto - namoro...
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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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    Felitti, Chico (30 October 2011). "Silencinho Bom". Serafina/Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). p. 56. Retrieved 22 January 2018. Beirão, Nirlando (October...
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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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    2014, the biographic musical Cazuza – Pro Dia Nascer Feliz opened in São Paulo. It featured songs from Cazuza's solo career as well as from his time as...
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    complicated murals. Subjects range from family portraits to commentary on São Paulo's social and political circumstances, as well as Brazilian folklore. Their...
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    Biennale in São Paulo, and in 2001, he represented Brazil at the 49th Biennale in Venice, Italy. Vik Muniz was born in 1961 in São Paulo, Brazil, as the...
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    Roberto Burle Marx (category People from São Paulo)
    name, like Philodendron burle-marxii. Roberto Burle Marx was born in São Paulo. He was the fourth son of Rebecca Cecília Burle, a member of the traditional...
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    supergroup. It was recorded June 24 of that year at Anhembi Stadium in São Paulo. Its members were Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa...
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    Antunes Mãe Stella de Oxóssi Maria Cecília Geyer Maria Delith Balaban Mário Covas Paixão Côrtes Paulo Fontainha Geyer Romero Magalhães Washington Novaes 2000...
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    free ourselves from only to face another day". According to the critic Paulo Francis Rodrigues' constant subject-matter was simple: "human beings are...
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