• The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Portela or Portela for short, is a traditional samba school, founded in 1923, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school...
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    A samba school (Portuguese: Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club. They practice and often perform in a huge square-compounds...
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    evolve into their ultimate form - the Rio samba schools. Estácio de Sá, together with Portela and Estação Primeira de Mangueira paraded for the first time...
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    such as samba urbano carioca (urban Carioca samba), samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba), recognized as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage...
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  • Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro (English: Independent League of the Samba Schools of Rio de Janeiro), commonly known by the acronym...
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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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    Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro – also known as the Special Group (since 1990), and formerly under the Associação das Escolas de Samba da Cidade...
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  • The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel is a samba school of the city of Rio de Janeiro, being located on Rua Coronel...
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    record by the Rio de Janeiro Carnival jury in 1953. Following this Candeia composed four other award-winning samba singles for the Portela school including...
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    Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Caprichosos de Pilares (or simply Caprichosos de Pilares) is a Brazilian samba school of Rio de Janeiro based in the...
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  • Deixa Falar (category Samba schools of Rio de Janeiro)
    neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. It is considered the first ever samba school, along with being the first entity created under that title. Though Portela, for instance...
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    she recorded her first single (the samba "Não vá Simbora") in 1929. Miranda's second single, "Prá Você Gostar de Mim" (also known as "Taí", and released...
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    became international hits, such as the "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema"), as well as "Samba da Benção". Moraes introduced promising singers...
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    Cruz, in Rio de Janeiro. For many years she followed the Portela Samba School; in 1940, after her marriage, she moved to the Mangueira Samba School. For...
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    obra de João Gilberto, diz laudo de Paulo Jobim". Terra Magazine (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 July 2019. "Há 50 anos, João Gilberto estreou seu samba harmônico...
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    Beth Carvalho (category Samba musicians)
    Old Guard of Portela. Her samba school was Mangueira, but that didn't stop her from recording dozens of songs from composers of Portela, the other great...
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    Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos de Vila Isabel is a samba school in Rio de Janeiro. It was thrice champion of the Special Group and is currently...
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    Agepê (category Samba musicians)
    telenovela Vereda tropical. He was part of a group of composers of the samba school Portela. He has also successfully remixed Cama e Mesa by Roberto Carlos and...
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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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    Mocidade Alegre (category Samba schools of São Paulo)
    Grêmio Recreativo Cultural Social Escola de Samba Mocidade Alegre, popularly known simply as Mocidade Alegre, is a samba school from São Paulo, Brazil. It...
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  • Recreativo Escola de Samba Beija-Flor is a Samba school headquartered in the municipality of Nilópolis, Baixada Fluminense, in the state of Rio de Janeiro...
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    Paulinho da Costa (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    emerge from the Samba Schools of Brazil (Escola de Samba). As a teen, da Costa traveled extensively with samba trios and quartets, Brazilian ensembles...
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    parallels with the military regime. Despite the censorship, songs such as "Samba de Orly" (1970), "Acorda amor" (1974, as "Julinho da Adelaide") manifested...
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    Biscoito Fino. In 1984, at 19, Mercury married electronic engineer Zalther Portela Laborda Póvoas, her high school boyfriend. The next year, on September...
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    Carlos de (2004). Crisólogo: O estudante de poesia Caetano Veloso. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: HP Comunicação. De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo del samba, La vicenda...
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    I’m sending you news on this tape. Here we play football, there’s lots of samba, lots of choro and rock’n'roll. Some days it rains, some days it’s sunny...
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    Dorival Caymmi (category Samba musicians)
    the birth of Brazil's bossa nova movement, and several of his samba pieces, such as "Samba da Minha Terra", "Doralice" and "Saudade da Bahia", have become...
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    Paulinho da Viola (category Samba musicians)
    samba composer is to have his song picked by one of the largest samba schools (escola de samba) to be performed during the annual Carnival procession in the...
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    Dona Ivone Lara (category Samba musicians)
    Amarelo, playing the role of Tia Nastácia Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro The official birth date that appears on Ivone Lara’s documents...
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    into films, theatrical works and TV programmes. They even inspired some samba schools of the Brazilian Carnival. In 1987, the House of Jorge Amado Foundation...
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