There was a time in Brazil when the word 'tupiniquim' didn't mean 'something bad'... but 'something really good' besides being the name of the indigenous population the Portuguese met as soon as they 'discovered' Brazil in 1500.
By the mid-1950s TV Tupi wasn't very happy with TV Record's early Roquette Pinto Award which they thought was lop-sided on Emissoras Unidas favour. Well, TV Tupi decided to create its own yearly Award and gave it the name of Tupiniquim.
Rio de Janeiro's Radiolandia was invited to the Award giving ceremony in January 1960 for the best artists & technicians of 1959, and here are some shots of the bash.
Orchestra conductor Armando Belardi leads Sao Paulo's Theatro Municipal Symphony Orchestra at Tupiniquim gala that awarded TV's best 1959 performers & technicians.
'Radiomelodias' presents some of Tupiniquim's best of 1959: José Carlos de Moraes aka Tico-Tico, Luis Bordón, Hebe Camargo, Cassiano Gabus Mendes, Roberto Luna, Coripheu de Azevedo Marques, Carlos Alberto & his father Manoel da Nóbrega.
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