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- Female
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1934
- Active to
- 1966
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Silvia Telles (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈsiwvia ˈtɛlis]; August 27, 1934 – December 17, 1966) was a Brazilian jazz samba and bossa nova singer of the 1950s and 1960s. She was born in 1934 and she had the ambition to be a ballet dancer. She studied with Madeleine Rosay at the Teatro Municipal's corp de ballet in Rio de Janeiro, but she would also practice singing and playing the piano.[1] Telles preceded the advent of bossa nova, and began covering songs by such influential composers as Antonio C
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sylvia
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Rio de Janeiro
- Place of death
- Maricá
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Sílvia Telles, sem data.tif
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- date of birth
- 1934-08-27
- date of death
- 1966-12-19
- cause of death
- traffic collision
- start of work period
- 1954-00-00
- Commons category
- Sylvia Telles
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