1. Dirce Grandino de Oliveira, known as Dircinha Batista, was a Brazilian actress and singer.
11 Facts About Dircinha Batista
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Daughter of the singer, composer and ventriloquist Batista Junior and sister of Linda Batista, Dircinha Batista was a very successful Brazilian singer.
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Dircinha Batista worked in sixteen Brazilian movies and was a child prodigy.
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Dircinha Batista began to participate in her father's shows in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo beginning in 1928.
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Dircinha and her sister Linda Batista became famous while still young and soon won the admiration of the then-president Getulio Vargas, who considered the Batista sisters a "national heritage".
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Dircinha Batista became RCA Victor's leading seller over the 1940s and 1950s.
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Dircinha Batista's singing career took off after Francisco Alves presented her on his program on Radio Cajuti as "the girl with the throat of a bird".
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Dircinha Batista recorded "Tirolesa", one of the great hits of the 1939 Carnival, and won a contest promoted by the newspaper O Globo to choose the favorite singer of the federal capital.
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Dircinha Batista had a hit at the 1958 Carnaval with "Mamae, Eu Levei Bomba".
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Dircinha Batista signed a contract with TV Tupi in 1961 and had success in 1964 with "A India Vai Ter Nenem".
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Isolated by her mother and never having married, Dircinha Batista closed herself off from the world in 1974 and would remain secluded in her apartment in Copacabana, in the care of her sister Linda.