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    Companhia das Letras. Veloso, Caetano (2005). O mundo não é chato. São Paulo, Brazil: Companhia das Letras. Morais Junior Lui Morais, Luís Carlos de (2004)...
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    brother's death. Meirelles was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Meirelles' father, José de Souza Meirelles, is a gastroenterologist who travelled regularly to Asia and...
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    including Sete de Setembro, Canto do Rio, São Paulinho, and Ameriquinha. Pelé led Bauru Atlético Clube juniors (coached by Waldemar de Brito) to two São...
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    City's Plaza de Toros, two nights at Monterrey's Auditorio Coca-Cola, and two nights (with over 50,000 attendees each) at the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata in...
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    da era industrial. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras. ISBN 978-85-7164-588-2. OCLC 859535737. Salgado, Sebastião; Buarque de Holanda, Francisco; Saramago...
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    Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE GCIH (Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛl doliˈvɐjɾɐ]; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter...
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    ISBN 978-0-275-99247-7. Castro, Ruy (2005). Carmen - Uma Biografia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras. ISBN 978-8535907605. Dennison, Stephanie; Shaw, Lisa (2004)...
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    Clarice Lispector (category Deaths from cancer in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    Pernambuco, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio, she began publishing...
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    Chicago Review Press, Inc. ISBN 1-55652-409-9 First published in Brasil by Companhia das Letras. 1990. McGowan, Chris and Pessanha, Ricardo. The Brazilian...
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    Escudos Banknote". Banco de Cabo Verde. 12 September 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2023. "Aeroporto de Cabo Verde recebe o nome de Cesaria Évora". Pop & Arte...
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    do Malandro 1985: Malandro 1986: Melhores momentos de Chico & Caetano 1987: Francisco 1988: Dança da meia-lua 1989: Chico Buarque 1990: Chico Buarque...
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    e Mello Moraes (19 October 1913 – 9 July 1980), better known as Vinícius de Moraes (Portuguese pronunciation: [viˈnisjuʒ dʒi moˈɾajʃ]) and nicknamed O...
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    José Sarney de Araújo Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ saʁˈnej dʒi aɾaˈuʒu ˈkɔstɐ]; born José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa; 24 April 1930) is...
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    Brasileira de Letras". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 October 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023. "Ailton Krenak – Grupo Companhia das Letras"...
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    secondary school Portuguese teacher. In 1944, he married Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, a fellow teacher. The two worked together and had five children...
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    Silvio Santos (category Mass media people from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    1905. Both died in Rio de Janeiro (in 1975 and 1988 respectively) and are buried side by side in the Caju Jewish Cemetery, Rio de Janeiro. On his paternal...
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    Durand, Fabien (October 13, 2005). "Cérémonie de remise des insignes de Grand Officier dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur à Gilberto Gil". Culture...
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    Milton Nascimento (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Album for his album Nascimento in 1998. Milton Nascimento was born in Rio de Janeiro. His mother, Maria Nascimento, was a maid. As a baby, Nascimento was...
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    audiences with the song "Reconvexo", in which he says "quem não sentiu o swing de Henri Salvador?" ("who hasn't felt the swing of Henri Salvador?"). Veloso...
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    Walter Salles (category Mass media people from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Bear winning film Central Station. Salles was born on 12 April 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic...
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    the Brazilian state of Bahia. He was the eldest of four sons of João Amado de Faria and D. Eulália Leal. The farm was located in the village of Ferradas...
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    In 1989, recorded her first two albums as the lead singer of pop band Companhia Clic. Their songs "Pega que Oh!" and "Ilha das Bananas" became minor hits...
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    roving theatre troupe with roots in a form of literature known as literatura de cordel ("twine literature")). The original movement named itself mangue bit...
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    term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre. Augusto...
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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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  • started learning capoeira when he was 12 years old, with a Capitão da Companhia Baiana de Navegação (Navigation Captain) from Estrada das Boiadas (present...
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    Gal Costa (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    later spelled as Gal. At 14, she first listened to João Gilberto's "Chega de Saudade" on the radio and became interested in Bossa Nova.[citation needed]...
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  • Renato Russo (category AIDS-related deaths in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    Tão Jovens (We Are So Young). Renato Manfredini Jr. was born in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. He started his studies at an early age, at Colégio Olavo...
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    Lee started recording with her husband, Roberto de Carvalho. The couple wrote hits such as "Mania de Você" (1979), "Lança Perfume" (1980), "Saúde" (1981)...
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    Mercedes Sosa (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    as an ambassador for UNICEF. Sosa was born on 9 July 1935, in San Miguel de Tucumán, in the northwestern Argentine province of Tucumán, of mestizo ancestry...
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