Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, known professionally as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "The Brazilian Bombshell", she was known for her signature fruit hat outfit that she wore in her American films.
Ary Evangelista de Resende Barroso was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th century. Barroso also composed many songs for Carmen Miranda during her career.
Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga, commonly known as Braguinha or João de Barro, was a Brazilian songwriter and occasional singer.
Odete Lara, was a Brazilian film actress. She appeared in 37 films between 1954 and 1994, including two films shown at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1957 she was awarded with Prêmio Saci.
Mário da Silveira Meireles Reis, also known as Bacharel do Samba was a popular Brazilian samba singer, active between 1928 and 1971. He collaborated with artists such as Francisco Alves, Carmen Miranda, Aracy de Almeida and Noel Rosa and was particularly successful as a radio singer.
Ruy Castro is a Brazilian author and journalist. In 1996 he was a co-winner of the Prêmio Jabuti. He is known for his writings concerning Bossa nova and for his biographies, profiling figures such as Garrincha, Nelson Rodrigues and Carmen Miranda.
Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business is a 1995 documentary filmed and directed by Helena Solberg. This documentary chronicles the life and career of Carmen Miranda, Hollywood's symbol of Latin American spirit in the 1940s. The documentary tells her life story in a series of stages, beginning with her roots and rise to stardom in her home country of Brazil, her transition and development as a performer in the United States, first on Broadway in New York City, then in the film industry after she signed with 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles, and her later years in life, before her death and her return to Brazil. Helena Solberg uses two different film styles, biography and directorial reverie, in which Solberg uses actor Erick Barretos to “resurrect Carmen Miranda in several fantasy sequences. Helena Solberg's attitudes shift throughout the documentary from awe-struck child to empathetic and forgiving Brazilian woman, which she uses to represent the contradictory subplots of Carmen Miranda's life. Alongside the fantasy like resurrection of Miranda, Solberg accompanies her documentary with multiple interviews with Carmen Miranda's friends and family, like her sister, her first boyfriend, the guitarist Laurindo Almeida, samba song-writer Synval Silva, Cesar Romero, and Alice Faye.
Carmélia Alves, a Brazilian singer known as the "Queen of Baião", was one of the country's best-known performers of baião, a folk rhythm popular in Northeast Brazil.
Alô, Alô, Carnaval is a 1936 Brazilian musical comedy film directed and produced by Adhemar Gonzaga and Wallace Downey, and released by the Cinédia production company.
Wallace Downey was an American film producer and director.
The Wedding Samba is a samba written by Abraham Ellstein, Allan Small and Joseph Liebowitz and recorded by Carmen Miranda with participation of Andrews Sisters for Decca Records on December 12, 1949.
"Mamãe eu quero" is a 1937 Brazilian song composed by Vicente Paiva and Jararaca, and is one of the most famous Brazilian songs. The original recording was made by one of the composers, Jararaca, in 1937 and recorded on Odeon Records.
Estudantes is a Brazilian musical comedy film directed by Wallace Downey and starring Carmen Miranda, Barbosa Júnior, Mesquitinha and Mário Reis.
Bambú, Bambú is a song written by Patrick Teixeira and Donga and recorded by Carmen Miranda in 1939 for the film Down Argentine Way.
"Yipsee-I-O" is a song written by Ray Gilbert, and recorded by Carmen Miranda with the Andrews Sisters on January 6, 1950. It was presented by Miranda in a musical number from the film Nancy Goes to Rio, produced by MGM.
"Baião Ca-Room' Pa Pa" is a song written by Humberto Teixeira and Luiz Gonzaga with an English version by Ray Gilbert, engraved by Carmen Miranda in 1950 and featured in the film Nancy Goes to Rio from MGM. It is a "Gay Latin lilt from Miranda's flicker" said Billboard magazine.
Cinédia was a Brazilian film studio established on 15 March 1930 in Rio de Janeiro, and remained in continual operation until 1951.
A Voz do Carnaval is a 1933 Brazilian short film documentary, directed by Adhemar Gonzaga and released by production company Cinédia. With no copies preserved, it is considered a lost film.
This is a complete filmography of Carmen Miranda, a Portuguese-Brazilian singer, actress, and dancer.
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.
