17 Facts About Cidinha Campos

Cidinha Campos was born on 1942 and is a Brazilian journalist and radio and television broadcaster.

Cidinha Campos has been a politician affiliated to Brazil's Democratic Labour Party since 1982, serving terms as a Federal Deputy to the National Congress of Brazil and as a Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro state.

Cidinha Campos is noted for her campaigns against corruption and her work in favour of consumer rights.

Maria Aparecida Campos Straus, better known as Cidinha Campos, was born in Sao Paulo on 5 September 1942.

When he heard Campos speaking and singing with a Portuguese accent, he arranged for her to sing on Clube Papai Noel, a show broadcast on Radio Difusora in Sao Paulo.

Cidinha Campos then appeared on television in soap operas and was a TV presenter on children's programmes, first on Super Radio Tupi until 1955 and then on Record TV until 1970.

Cidinha Campos attended secondary school at Colegio Pais Leme in Sao Paulo and graduated as a pianist at the Conservatorio Dramatico e Musical de Sao Paulo.

The current affairs programme on RecordTV that Cidinha Campos presented proved important for her career.

Cidinha Campos interviewed famous people, such as Jean Genet, Claudia Cardinale, Alberto Sordi, Alain Delon and Jean Paul Sartre.

Cidinha Campos established herself as a communicator with great popular empathy, one who had a commitment to obtaining benefits for her listeners, most of them low-income workers.

Cidinha Campos was elected federal deputy to the National Congress of Brazil in Brasilia in October 1990 and sworn in in February 1991, as a member of the Democratic Labour Party, representing Rio de Janeiro state.

Cidinha Campos has been sued on 33 occasions for "moral damage".

In 1992 Cidinha Campos ran unsuccessfully for the position of mayor of Rio de Janeiro, despite early opinion polls having put her ahead of other candidates.

Cidinha Campos denounced numerous acts of corruption, including in areas such as private pension provision and advertising expenditure by the state government, and in some cases was successful in having people removed from office and convicted.

Cidinha Campos chaired the Assembly's Consumer Defence Commission for 10 years, which, among other things, created "consumer buses", that provided a mobile service to listen to the population's complaints.

Cidinha Campos failed to be re-elected to the state assembly in 2019, receiving many fewer votes than in previous elections and in 2020 resumed her broadcasting career on Super Radio Tupi.

Since 1973, Cidinha Campos has been married to Ricardo Straus, and they have a son.