Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known simply as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic, and cultural reflections on Brazil.
Antônio Pecci Filho, better known as Toquinho, is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is well known for his collaborations, as composer and performer, with Vinicius de Moraes.
Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque is a Brazilian university professor and member of Cidadania. He was a senator for the Federal District from 2003 to 2019.
Antônio Maurício Horta de Melo is a Brazilian jazz guitarist and vocalist.
Paulinho Nogueira was a Brazilian guitarist, composer and singer.
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was a Brazilian historian, writer, journalist and sociologist. His greatest achievement was Raízes do Brasil, a landmark of Brazilian sociology, in which he developed the groundbreaking concept of the "cordial man" as the fundamental Brazilian identity. His son, Chico Buarque de Holanda is an accomplished singer-songwriter and novelist and his daughter Miúcha was also a famous singer. Buarque de Holanda was also a member of the Academia Paulista de Letras.
Elza da Conceição Soares, known professionally as Elza Soares, was a Brazilian samba singer. In 1999, she was named Singer of the Millennium along with Tina Turner by BBC Radio.
Bernardo Sorj is a Brazilian social scientist, retired professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is Director of The Edelstein Center for Social Research and of the Plataforma Democrática Project. He has published 30 books and more than 100 articles, on Latin American political development, international relations, the social impact of new technologies, social theory and Judaism.
Marieta Severo da Costa is a Brazilian stage, film and television actress. She is best known to youth audiences as the archetypal mother figure in popular sitcom A Grande Família (2001–2014), as well to mature audiences for portraying villains in telenovelas.
Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known professionally as Miúcha, was a Brazilian singer and composer.
Miss Earth Brazil is an annual national beauty pageant that selects Brazil's official representative to Miss Earth—one of the Big Four International Beauty Pageants
Avenida Brasil is a Brazilian primetime telenovela created by João Emanuel Carneiro. It was written by Carneiro in collaboration with Antonio Prata, Luciana Pessanha, Alessandro Marson, Marcia Prates and Thereza Falcão, and directed by José Luiz Villamarim, Amora Mautner, and Ricardo Waddington. It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Murilo Benício, Débora Falabella, Cauã Reymond, Alexandre Borges, Vera Holtz, José de Abreu, Nathalia Dill, Ísis Valverde, Heloísa Périssé, Marcelo Novaes, Fabíula Nascimento, Otávio Augusto, Paula Burlamaqui, Carol Abras, Bruno Gissoni, Thiago Martins, Débora Nascimento, Juliano Cazarré, Felipe Abib, Bianca Comparato, Cacau Protásio, Daniel Rocha, Ronny Kriwat, Cláudia Missura, Patrícia de Jesus, Leticia Isnard, Luana Martau, Marcella Valente, Emiliano D'Ávila, Mel Maia, Débora Bloch, Juca de Oliveira, Carolina Ferraz, Eliane Giardini, Camila Morgado, Betty Faria, Marcos Caruso, Ailton Graça, Adriana Esteves, and Tony Ramos. Avenida Brasil premiered on 26 March 2012 and ended on 19 October 2012 on TV Globo.
Gabriela Markus is a Brazilian engineer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Brazil 2012. She represented Brazil in Miss Universe 2012 finishing as 4th Runner-Up. .
The discography of Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia consists of 34 studio albums, 15 live albums, several participations in movie and telenovela soundtracks as well as numerous collaborations with other artists.
Desejos de Mulher is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from January 21, 2002, to August 24, 2002, totaling 185 chapters, replacing As Filhas da Mãe and replaced by O Beijo do Vampiro.
"Sabiá" is a Brazilian song composed in 1968 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Chico Buarque. English-language lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.
Canibália was a concert tour by the Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury, beginning on August 7, on Citibank Hall, São Paulo. Eight days after, where she made another concert at Citibank Hall, she went to Rio de Janeiro and then took the tour to Portugal, where she performed in five cities, right after, back to the Latin American, European and North American. The tour counts with the participation of dancers, who danced the choreographies developed by Jorge Silva, recognized choreographer from Bahia. Gringo Cardia, the developer of the five covers of the album Canibália, was responsible for the elaboration of the scenario of the tour. On March 10, 2011, Mercury began her new tour Canibália: Ritmos do Brasil Tour to promote her new album of de same name recorded live in Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro.
Aline Wirley da Silva is a Brazilian actress and singer-songwriter. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La Vie (2003), Blá Blá Blá (2004) and Mil e Uma Noites (2005), selling in all 6 million copies and becoming best-seller Brazilian girl group.
Caravanas is the thirty eighth studio album by Brazilian musician Chico Buarque, released on August 25, 2017, through Biscoito Fino. It was produced by Vinícius França and Luiz Cláudio Ramos and features collaborations with Chico Brown, Clara Buarque and Rafael Mike. A live version of the album as well as a DVD titled Caravanas - Ao Vivo were released in 2018.
A Preta do Acarajé is a song by Dorival Caymmi, recorded by Carmen Miranda on February 27, 1939, with the Conjunto Regional and the participation of Caymmi, released by Odeon Records. It was Dorival Caymmi's first record.
