Aurora Miranda

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Carmen and Aurora Miranda (1936)

Aurora Miranda da Cunha Richaid (born April 20, 1915 in Rio de Janeiro , † December 22, 2005 there ) was a Brazilian singer and actress .

life and career

Aurora Miranda was born in Rio de Janeiro as the younger sister of the legendary singer and actress Carmen Miranda . Aurora's show career was somewhat overshadowed by that of her sister, but she was an independent star herself, especially in South America.

Aurora Miranda began her singing career at the age of 18 at the radio station Mayrink Veiga by Josué de Barros, where her sister had also started her career around ten years earlier. From 1933 she made recordings for the Brazilian record label Odeon. Her first recordings sold so well that she got a contract there. With 81 recorded albums, she was probably the most successful Brazilian singer of the 1930s behind her sister. Her most successful songs include Cidade Maravilhosa , Se a Lua Contasse , Sem Você , Trenzinho do Amor and Deixa a Baiana Sambar . In 1934 she made the first recording of the song Cidade Maravilhosa , which is still considered the unofficial city anthem of Rio today. Her sister Carmen was with the rival record label Victor, but the relationship between the sisters remained good and they stood together for the 1936 film Hello, Hello, Carnival! in front of the camera.

In the 1940s, Aurora Miranda tried, like her sister, to establish herself as a singer in the USA. After appearing more frequently in nightclubs and shows, she appeared in several Hollywood films in 1944. In Robert Siodmak's Film Noir Witness Wanted , she played a spirited nightclub singer and performed the song Chica-Chica-Boom-Boom . Probably her best-known film appearance was in the Disney classic Three Caballeros , in which she dances with Donald Duck on the beach in front of Bahia and sings the song Os Quindins de Yayá . Aurora Miranda became the first person to star in a film with Disney characters in front of the camera.

Aurora Miranda was married to Gabriel Richaid from 1940 until his death in 1990. The couple had a daughter and a son. The couple returned to Brazil in 1951 and settled in Leblon in the late 1950s . Aurora Miranda increasingly withdrew from show business in the 1950s and instead looked after her family. In later years she gave interviews and in 1989 she took on her last film role in Dias Melhores Virão . She died in December 2005 at the age of 90 in her hometown of Rio.

Filmography

  • 1935: Alô, Alô, Brasil
  • 1935: Estudantes
  • 1936: Alô Alô Carnaval
  • 1939: Banana-da-Terra
  • 1944: Witness wanted (Phantom Lady)
  • 1944: The Conspirators
  • 1944: Brazilian Serenade (Brazil)
  • 1944: Drei Caballeros (The Three Caballeros)
  • 1945: Tell It to a Star
  • 1981: Once Upon a Mouse (documentary, interview)
  • 1989: Dias Melhores Virão
  • 1995: Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (documentary, interview)

Web links

Commons : Aurora Miranda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aurora Miranda | Biography & History. Retrieved March 22, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Aurora Miranda at Find A Grave
  3. ↑ a b Tom Philips: Obituary: Aurora Miranda . In: The Guardian . March 6, 2006, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 22, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Miranda, Aurora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miranda da Cunha Richaid, Aurora (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2005
Place of death Rio de Janeiro