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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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    Som Maior. Then he joined Trio Novo (Airto Moreira, Heraldo do Monte, Theo de Barros) and in 1967 the group, renamed Quarteto Novo, released an album that...
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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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    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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    Lui Morais, Luís Carlos de (2004). Crisólogo: O estudante de poesia Caetano Veloso. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: HP Comunicação. De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo...
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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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    Letras. Cf. Jose Castello, Vinicius de Moraes - O Poeta da Paixao, São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 1994, ISBN 85-7164-355-5 "Both available at". Archived from...
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    1993. He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016. Salgado was born on February 8, 1944, in Aimorés...
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    recording with composer Josué de Barros in 1929. Miranda's 1930 recording of "Taí (Pra Você Gostar de Mim)", written by Joubert de Carvalho, catapulted her...
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    Jardim de Inverno. Editora Record. ISBN 85-1-033969-4. "Documentos da CIA revelam investigações sobre Jorge Amado – 11/02/2017 – Ilustrada – Folha de S.Paulo"...
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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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    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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    João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira – Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist...
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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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    Silvio Santos (category Businesspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    also involved in other areas such as music and politics. Born in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the former capital city of Brazil and former headquarters of the...
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    and in the same year he founded a landscape company, called Burle Marx & Cia. Ltda. He opened an office in Caracas, Venezuela in 1956 and started working...
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    de Maurício de Sousa". Jornalistas & Cia (in Portuguese). October 27, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015. Mauricio de Sousa – The Cartoonist Archived December...
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    Milton Nascimento (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    born in the boarding house Dona Augusta in the neighborhood of Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, where his mother, Maria do Carmo do Nascimento, was a maid. Maria...
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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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    began a romantic relationship with multi-instrumentalist and composer Roberto de Carvalho, who was the partner in most of Rita's compositions. They had three...
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    Zeca Pagodinho (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    in the genres of samba and pagode. Born in the neighborhood of Irajá, Rio de Janeiro, Zeca Pagodinho grew up around the most traditional manifestations...
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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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    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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    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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    "raro"". Folha de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Grupo Folha. Retrieved April 27, 2014. "Depois do 'Oscar', governo muda regras do cinema". Folha de S. Paulo (in...
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    (Original soundtrack – Raul Seixas & Paulo Coelho) 1974 – Gita 1975 – 20 Anos de Rock (Reissue of Os 24 Maiores Sucessos da Era do Rock) 1975 – Novo Aeon 1976...
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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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    Árvore (Decca/ECM, 1973) Academia de Danças (EMI, 1974) Corações Futuristas (Odeon, 1976) Carmo (EMI, 1977) Dança das Cabeças, with Naná Vasconcelos...
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