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Carmen Miranda
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Brazilian singer (1909–1955)
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Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese and Brazilian actor, singer, dancer, and film actor. Born in Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada, Marco de Canaveses, she held citizenship in both Portugal and Brazil. Her voice type was classified as mezzo-soprano and contralto, and she recorded for RCA Records. She was the sibling of Aurora Miranda.
Miranda received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Order of Cultural Merit from Brazil. She is associated with samba, latin, and brazilian music styles. Her work includes the book *The First Three Years*.
She died of a myocardial infarction from natural causes in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. She was buried at the Cemitério de São João Batista.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The First Three Years
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Marco de Canaveses, Portugal
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha GOIH • OMC (Marco de Canaveses, February 9, 1909 – Beverly Hills, August 5, 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress who attained fame in Brazil and the US in the 1930s. Best known to American audiences as "the lady in the tutti-frutti hat" due to her signature headdresses made of fruits, she was the…
Known for
- Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas — Dorita (archive footage) (uncredited)2026
- 3 Obás de Xangô — Self (archive footage)2025
- Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos — Self (archive footage)2024
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story — Self (archive footage)2024
- Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi — Self (archive footage)2024
- Garoto - Vivo Sonhando — Self (archive footage)2020
- Dê Lembranças a Todos — Self (archive footage)2018
- Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca — Self (archive footage)2014
- Naked Eye — Self (archive footage)2014
- Vito — Self (archive)2011
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1909
- Active to
- 1955
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 97,326
- Total plays
- 861,426
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Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha (February 9 1909, Marco de Canaveses, Portugal — August 5, 1955, Beverly Hills, California), widely known as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-Brazilian singer, dancer, Hollywood actress and performer of international fame. Her artistic career took place in Brazil and the United States between the 1930s and 1950s. She was considered by Rolling Stone magazine as the 15th greatest voice in Brazilian music, and is an international icon and symbol of Brazil abroad. <
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,382x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,605x
- Optical Coherence Tomography
· 1991 · cited 11,100x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,639x
- AFLP: a new technique for DNA fingerprinting
· 1995 · cited 8,339x
via Crossref · CC0
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha (9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaʁmẽj miˈɾɐ̃dɐ]), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "the Brazilian Bombshell," she was known for her signature fruit hat outfits that she wore in her American films.
As a young woman, Miranda designed clothes and hats in a boutique before making her debut as a singer, recording with composer Josué de Barros in 1929. Miranda's 1930 recording of "Taí (Pra Você Gostar de Mim)", written by Joubert de Carvalho, catapulted her to stardom in Brazil as the foremost interpreter of samba.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carmen Miranda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.