Ângela Maria

Angela Maria (Macae, May 13, 1929, Conceição de Macabu, Brazil. Died in September 30, 2018) was a Brazilian singer and actress, from humble beginnings. Her Mother was a stay-at-home wife and her Father, Pastor of the Evangelical Church. Because of this, as a child she sang in the choir of a Baptist church near her home. Thus, She learned to love music and melodies of the universe. During her childhood and adolescence, she lived in the cities of Niterói, São Gonçalo and São João de Meriti. During her youth she worked as a lamp factory worker and was a weaver in the textile industry, but always wanted to be a singer. She dreamed of going into radio and hoped to be successful, but her Father was against it. As he was religious, he wanted his daughter to be faithful to the church and marry early, but she had no desire to live that life and went after her dream. It was singing. In 1947, aged 19, she worked day and night, trying every means to get job in any program of music, ranging from radio to radio for sweepstakes entries, until she could be awarded and presented to the jury in a radio , and passed the test. With that, she began performing as a singer in Pescando Estrelas, a talent show. She adopted the name of Angela Maria not to be identified by the family, who knew not to leave or to leave the house. Her interpretation was considered beautiful, always took top marks and won all competitions. Everyone wanted to singer and so was singing the famous Dancing Avenue and then on the Mayrink Veiga radio station. In 1951, the family already knows everything and even unwillingly, accepting the will of his daughter, Angela recorded the first album. Came so successful that always followed. With great success in Brazil, She began to travel the world with beautiful songs. Her voice is considered very harmonic. Besides singing, she took courses in theater and acted in film, feature film in Portugal, Minha Saudade in 1973. Angela Maria established herself as one of the great interpreters of samba-song (emerged in the 1930s), along with Maysa, Nora Ney and Dolores Duran. She recorded dozens of hits such as Não Tenho Você, Babalu, Cinderela, Moça Bonita, Vá, Mas Volte, Garota Solitária, Falhaste Coração, Canto Paraguaio, A Nnoite E A Despedida, Gente Humilde, Lábios de Mel, etc.. In 1994 she was Honored by the Escola de Samba Paulistana Rosas de Ouro, which with the storyline "Sapoti," the Rosas de Ouro was devoted champion of the Carnival of Sao Paulo this year. In 1996 she was hired by Sony Music label and released the CD Amigos, with the participation of various artists such as Roberto Carlos, Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Alcyone, Fafá de Belém among others. The work was a success, celebrated in a show at the Metropolitan (Rio de Janeiro), and a special on TV Globo. The album sold over 500,000 copies. It was a very happy career of the singer who, in the following year, presented the album Pela Saudade Que Me Invade, with successes Dalva de Oliveira, and a year later recorded with Agnaldo Timóteo CD "Só Sucessos", also on the list of one hundred national best-selling albums. After the departure of Sony, Angela returned to recording in 2003, this time by Moon Records, Disco de Ouro, with a bias eclectic, covering composers ranging from Djavan up Dolores Duran. In 2011, 45 years after the appearance of the series for Depoimentos Para a Posteridade do Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro, she was invited on 23 August to put on record its history. Important passages in the interview she told of her artistic career, claiming to have recorded 114 albums and sold 60 million copies.