João Luís Baião dos Santos (born October 8, 1963) is a Portuguese television

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Early life and career

He was born in Buraca,

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, a satellite town close to

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. As a child, João Baião played soccer, gymnastics, and was part of a body of

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. Since a yearly age he embraced in theatrical performances. Then, together with his brother, he was part of an amateur theater group. He dropped out school and wrote a café-concert, winning a competition organized by a bar. Later, he was eventually invited to audition for the National Theatre D. Maria II in Lisbon, for the play

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and took a major role. He was then invited by Irene Cruz and João Lourenço to join the cast of a new theatre group, the Open Theater (Teatro Aberto), also in

. At the same time, he began to play small roles in television series. Baião continued to focus on writing and wrote another café-concert. The director

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liked his work and invited him to work with him at the Open Theater, where he was four years. Then he moved to the Experimental Theater of Cascais.

Television presenting

The fame of Baião nationally arose from the moment he started to present the "Big Show SIC", in the private television channel

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(SIC), since 1992. The program presented a variety of entertainment, relying heavily on Portuguese artists, was presented by Baião at a much exciting rate, unusual for its time on Portuguese television. For several years, João Baião was one of the most recognizable faces of SIC, but in late 2000 he went out of the channel and joined Channel 1 of the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). At the state-run television network RTP, was a member of the jury of "Dance", produced and presented the program "Saturday Night" and "João Baião", but he did not regain the audience he used to have when he was in SIC. Nowadays, João Baião host
“Casa Feliz”
(“Happy House”) with Diana Chaves on SIC.

Music

In parallel to the career of actor and presenter Baião also wrote lyrics to music groups and singers such as Excesso, Anjos, D'Arrasar, Xanadu, Milénio and Delirium as well as for the singer Cláudia. João Baião. In Infopédia m linha Porto:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baiao, Joao 1963 births Portuguese male actors Portuguese television presenters People from Amadora Living people Golden Globes (Portugal) winners