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Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho (born May 5, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian samba singer, acoustic guitar|guitarist, cavaquinho|cavaquinist and composer.
Biography
Carvalho was raised in a middle class family in Rio de Janeiro's Rio de Janeiro#South Zone|South Zone. Her father, João Francisco Leal de Carvalho, was a lawyer. She grew up in contact with different types of music. Her father used to take her to samba school rehearsals, and her mother was an appreciator of classical music who encouraged her to become a ballerina. She started playing the guitar as a teenager, and got involved with the emerging Bossa Nova movement, winning a nationwide song contest on TV at the age of 19. Her first record was 1968's "Andança", carrying the song of same name which she had defended in a festival, which brought her to prominence. Although she started her career with Bossa Nova, that was an ephemeral phase which lasted less than one year - Beth started dedicating herself entirely to samba just as her fame began, working with legendary composers such as Nelson Sargento.
Carvalho is a very important artist in the history of samba, for she has celebrated and brought stronger light, with great reverence, to the work of legendary composers such as Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho & Guilherme de Brito in times where they weren't receiving the attention they deserved. ... read all
Beth Carvalho
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