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Nara Leão
Nara Lofego Leão (; January 19, 1942 – June 7, 1989) was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB (popular Brazilian music) singer and occasional actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of ''Bye Bye Brasil''. Life Leão was born in Vitória, Espírito Santo. When she was twelve, her father gave her a guitar since he was worried about her being shy. Her teachers were popular musician and composer Patricio Teixeira and classical guitarist Solon Ayala. As a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with a number of singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's musical revolution, including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. In fact, it was in her apartment in her parents' home in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, that the new music was born in 1958. By 1963, after singing as an amateur for a few years, she became a professional and toured with Sérgio Mendes. In the mid-1960s, the ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitória, Espírito Santo
Vitória (, ''Victory''), spelled Victória until the 1940s, is the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. It is located on a small island within a bay where a number of rivers meet the sea. It was founded in 1551. The city proper has a population of 365,855 (2020) whilst the Greater Vitória metropolitan area has a population of more than 1,857,616 (2013), the 14th largest in Brazil. Vitória is a riverine island surrounded by Vitória's Bay. In addition to Vitória, the main island, another 34 islands and a mainland portion are part of the municipality, totalling . Originally there were 50 islands, many of which were joined to the largest island by landfill. In 1998, the United Nations rated Vitória as the fourth best state capital in Brazil to live in, rating cities on health, education, and social improvement projects. Among the Brazilian capitals, Vitória currently maintains the second best human development index (HDI) (after Florianópolis) according to res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio Mendes
Sérgio Santos Mendes (; born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician. His career took off with worldwide hits by his group Brasil '66. He has over 55 releases and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2012 as co-writer of the song "Real in Rio" from the animated film ''Rio''. Mendes is a unique example of a Brazilian musician primarily known in the United States, where his albums were recorded and where most of his touring took place. Mendes is married to Gracinha Leporace, who has performed with him since the early 1970s. Mendes has also collaborated with many artists through the years, including The Black Eyed Peas, with whom he re-recorded in 2006 a version of his breakthrough hit " Mas que Nada". Biography Early career Mendes was born in Niterói, Brazil, the son of a physician. He attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As his interest in jazz grew, he starte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samba
Samba (), also known as samba urbano carioca (''urban Carioca samba'') or simply samba carioca (''Carioca samba''), is a Brazilian music genre that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Having its roots in Brazilian folk traditions, especially those linked to the primitive rural samba of the colonial and imperial periods, it is considered one of the most important cultural phenomena in Brazil and one of the country's symbols. Present in the Portuguese language at least since the 19th century, the word "samba" was originally used to designate a "popular dance". Over time, its meaning has been extended to a "batuque-like circle dance", a dance style, and also to a "music genre". This process of establishing itself as a musical genre began in the 1910s and it had its inaugural landmark in the song " Pelo Telefone", launched in 1917. Despite being identified by its creators, the public, and the Brazilian music industry as "samba", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gildo De Stefano
Ermenegildo De Stefano (born in Naples Italy) is an Italian journalist, music critic and musicologist. He specializes in African-American music. He is a music journalist, sociologist, and critic for the Italian daily ''Roma'' and art director of the Italian Festival of Ragtime. Early life He earned a degree in Sociology of Communications. Career He began collaborating with RAI Radio in the 1980s, for which he conducted jazz programs and regularly published essays on published by RAI. He organizes courses of ''Afro-American music'' and ''Creative Writing'' workshops in various Italian universities and music conservatories including San Pietro a Majella. He is the author of the only ragtime history in Italian language, published by Marsilio Editori (Venice) in two editions, in 1984 and in 1991. In the mid-1990s, he won a national prize for journalism of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to coincide with the arrival among finalists of literary , and in the 2018 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nara (Nara Leão 1964 Album)
Nara or Na-ra may refer to: Places and jurisdictions * Nara Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan ** Nara, Nara, the capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan * Nara, an ancient Roman city in Tunisia, now called Bir El Hafey * Nara, Attock, a village in Attock, Pakistan * Nara, Jhelum, a village in Jhelum, Pakistan * Nara Matore, a village in Kahuta Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan * Nara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Union Council of Abbottabad, Pakistan * Nara, Mali, a town in Mali * Nara Basin, a valley in Nara Prefecture, Japan * Nara Canal, an excavated waterway in Sindh province, Pakistan * Nara Canal, a paleochannel of the Indus and the Hakra, partly used by the Nara Canal * Nara (Oka), a river in Russia * Nara River (India), a river in Gujarat, India * Nara Burnu, a cape in Turkey People and society * Nara people, a Nilotic ethnic minority inhabiting Eritrea * Nara language, the mother tongue of the Nara people * Nara clan, a Manchu clan in China * National Radical C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nara (Nara Leão 1967 Album)
Nara or Na-ra may refer to: Places and jurisdictions * Nara Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan ** Nara, Nara, the capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan * Nara, an ancient Roman city in Tunisia, now called Bir El Hafey * Nara, Attock, a village in Attock, Pakistan * Nara, Jhelum, a village in Jhelum, Pakistan * Nara Matore, a village in Kahuta Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan * Nara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Union Council of Abbottabad, Pakistan * Nara, Mali, a town in Mali * Nara Basin, a valley in Nara Prefecture, Japan * Nara Canal, an excavated waterway in Sindh province, Pakistan * Nara Canal, a paleochannel of the Indus and the Hakra, partly used by the Nara Canal * Nara (Oka), a river in Russia * Nara River (India), a river in Gujarat, India * Nara Burnu, a cape in Turkey People and society * Nara people, a Nilotic ethnic minority inhabiting Eritrea * Nara language, the mother tongue of the Nara people * Nara clan, a Manchu clan in China * National Radical C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nara Leão (Nara Leão Album)
Nara Lofego Leão (; January 19, 1942 – June 7, 1989) was a Brazilian bossa nova and Música popular brasileira, MPB (popular Brazilian music) singer and occasional actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of ''Bye Bye Brasil''. Life Leão was born in Vitória, Brazil, Vitória, Espírito Santo. When she was twelve, her father gave her a guitar since he was worried about her being shy. Her teachers were popular musician and composer Patricio Teixeira and classical guitarist Solon Ayala. As a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with a number of singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's musical revolution, including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. There are even voices that claim that it was in her room in her parents' home in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, that the new music was born in the fifties. By 1963, after singing as an amateur for a few years, she becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dez Años Depois (Nara Leão Album)
''Dez Anos Depois'' () is a 1971 double album of bossa nova standards by Brazilian singer Nara Leão. The first LP is entirely acoustic. The arrangements and accompaniment, made by Brazilian guitarist Tuca, with occasional piano lines, were recorded in France; Nara was living in Paris at the time. The second LP was recorded in Rio; Nara's guitar and vocal were tracked separately from the accompaniment and orchestration, which were done at a studio with arrangers Roberto Menescal, Luiz Eça, and Rogério Duprat. Track listing of the original LP ;Disc 1 Side A # "Insensatez" (Tom Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes) # "Samba de uma nota só" (Jobim, Newton Mendonça) # " Retrato em branco e preto" (Jobim, Chico Buarque) # "Corcovado" (Jobim) # "Garota de Ipanema" (Jobim, de Moraes) # "Pois é" (Jobim, Buarque) Side B # "Chega de Saudade" (Jobim, de Moraes) # " Bonita" (Jobim, Gene Lees, Ray Gilbert) # "Você e eu" (Carlos Lyra, de Moraes) # " Fotografia" (Jobim) # "O grande amor" (Jobim, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columnist
A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Column (newspaper), Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. They take the form of a short essay by a specific writer who offers a personal point of view. In some instances, a column has been written by a composite or a team, appearing under a pseudonym, or (in effect) a brand name. Some columnists appear on a daily or weekly basis and later reprint the same material in book collections. Radio and television Newspaper columnists of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Franklin Pierce Adams (also known as FPA), Nick Kenny (poet), Nick Kenny, John Crosby (media critic), John Crosby, Jimmie Fidler, Louella Parsons, Drew Pearson (journalist), Drew Pearson, Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell, achieved a celebrity status and used their Print syndication, syndicated columns as a springboard to move into radio and television. In some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialite
A socialite is a person from a wealthy and (possibly) aristocratic background, who is prominent in high society. A socialite generally spends a significant amount of time attending various fashionable social gatherings, instead of having traditional employment. Word history The word ''socialite'' is first attested in 1909 in a California newspaper. It was popularized by ''Time'' magazine in the 1920s.David E. Sumner, ''The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900'', 2010, , p. 62 United Kingdom Historically, socialites in the United Kingdom were almost exclusively from the families of the aristocracy and landed gentry. Many socialites also had strong familial or personal relationships to the British royal family. Between the 17th and early 19th centuries, society events in London and at country houses were the focus of socialite activity. Notable examples of British socialites include Beau Brummell, Lord Alvanley, the Marchioness of Londonderry, Daisy, Princess of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danuza Leão
Danuza Lofego Leão (July 26, 1933 – June 22, 2022) was a Brazilian model, socialite, journalist, writer, and actress. Career She had a minor role in Glauber Rocha's 1967 FIPRESCI Award winning film ''Entranced Earth''. She has released several books. She was a columnist for the ''Folha de S.Paulo'' newspaper for twelve years until she was fired in 2013 a few months after generating controversy by declaring in her column that New York was no longer fun when "even the porter" could travel and that domestic servants were better off without the rights proposed by the "Domestic PEC". Personal life and death She is the older sister of singer Nara Leão and was married to Samuel Wainer, founder of the newspaper Última Hora with whom she had three children: plastic artist Débora "Pinky" Wainer, film producer Bruno Wainer and journalist Samuel Wainer Filho, who died as a result of a car crash in 1984. Danuza died from respiratory failure in Rio de Janeiro on 22 June 2022 at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brain Tumor
A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain. There are two main types of tumors: malignant tumors and benign (non-cancerous) tumors. These can be further classified as primary tumors, which start within the brain, and secondary tumors, which most commonly have spread from tumors located outside the brain, known as brain metastasis tumors. All types of brain tumors may produce symptoms that vary depending on the size of the tumor and the part of the brain that is involved. Where symptoms exist, they may include headaches, seizures, problems with vision, vomiting and mental changes. Other symptoms may include difficulty walking, speaking, with sensations, or unconsciousness. The cause of most brain tumors is unknown. Uncommon risk factors include exposure to vinyl chloride, Epstein–Barr virus, ionizing radiation, and inherited syndromes such as neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, and von Hippel-Lindau Disease. Studies on mobile phone exposure hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
