Brazilian show business 50s, 60s & 70s
Show business in Brazil in the 50s, 60s and 70s which includes TV, radio, records and magazines.
Monday 27 May 2024
Roquette Pinto Award 1957 - 1962 - 1963
Thursday 16 May 2024
Thais Matarazzo & Luiz Amorim meet Leila Silva - 2012
Thaís Matarazzo Cantero was an entrepreneur at heart. She made things happen. She would meet someone like the president of São Paulo's Order of Musicians, and sooner than later she would organize an afternoon recital at their headquarters at Edifício Itália at the heart of the city São Paulo.
I had met Thaís at Pateo do Collégio some time in 2004. We both took part in a weekly meeting of people who admired show business & Brazilian music of the 1930s & 1940s. Thaís had a special preference for Aurora Miranda, who had a much more famous sister called... Carmen Miranda. Thaís also liked to write biographies about show-business people who lived in the 20s, 30s & 40s.
One day, Thaís told me she was going to meet Leila Silva, who had been a popular singer in the late 1950s and 1960s at the headquarters of the Order of Musicians. I had already told Thaís, I had a special bias to Leila Silva, for she was Number One at the Hit Parade, when I moved to São Paulo in December 1960, with a samba-choro called 'Não sabemos'. I was really impressed by that particular song and I elected her my favourite female singer. More than 50 years had already gone by but I was still excited when Thaís invited me to go along and meet my former teen-idol.
Here are the photos taken on that particular Wednesday afternoon, 3rd October 2012. Twelve years have gone by... Thaís, sadly passed away in early 2023 and Leila, unfortunately had been struck with some form of the Alzheimer disease, and is being taken care of by her daughter in Santos-SP. But the memories are so alive I just can't believe it was so long ago. It seems like only yesterday.
Thais Matarazzo, Valdir Comegno, popular singer Leila Silva and someone who worked at São Paulo's Order of Musicians, in the afternoon of 3rd October 2012.Wednesday 27 March 2024
Tropicália - Rogério Duprat - Mutantes 1967-1968
Monday 20 March 2023
Friday 30 September 2022
One afternoon at São Paulo's Musicians' Guild