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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    them, and similar music groups to find places to play. In the early 90s, Paulo Andre Pires, who would become Nação Zumbi's impresario, began producing...
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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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    (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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    Rita Lee (category Deaths from cancer in São Paulo (state))
    book of 2017 in Brazil. Rita Lee was born in Vila Mariana (district of São Paulo), Brazil, to an American-Brazilian father, Charles Fenley Jones, a dentist...
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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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    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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    (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ˈkaʁluz maɾˈtʃĩs]); born June 25, 1940, in Sao Paulo, Brazil) is an Brazilian classical pianist and conductor, who has performed...
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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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