- Inezita Barroso
Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima (born
March 4 ,1925 inSão Paulo ) is aBrazil ian folk singer andTV host who has also done some acting. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057805/ IMDB] ] She is noted for supporting or reviving songs from thecaipira .She became interested in music from an early point and after her marriage she managed to get the support needed to do so. By the 1950s she had had a few hits, but her fondness for traditional folk and rural music kept her from being "mainstream" in Brazilian music. Despite, or perhaps because of, that she gained a following in rural Brazil even though she was an urbanite herself. [ [http://www.allbrazilianmusic.com/en/interview/interview.asp?Status=MATERIA&Nu_Materia=2074 Interview from "All Brazilian Music"] ]
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* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wcfqxqekldhe~T1 All Music]
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