13 Facts About Hebe Camargo

Hebe Camargo is considered the "Queen of Brazilian Television".

Hebe Camargo died at her home on 29 September 2012.

Hebe Camargo was born on the International Women's Day of 1929, in Taubate, Sao Paulo, was the daughter of Esther Magalhaes Camargo and Sigesfredo Monteiro de Camargo, both of Portuguese origin, She began her career as a singer in the 1940s with her sister Estela, as Rosalinda e Florisbela.

Hebe Camargo left her musical career to devote more time to radio and television.

Hebe Camargo was invited by Assis Chateaubriand to attend the first live broadcast of Brazilian television, in the neighborhood of Sumare, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In 1955, Hebe Camargo appeared in the first program for women on Brazilian television, O Mundo e das Mulheres, on television in Rio de Janeiro, which aired five times a week.

Hebe Camargo was seen on almost every television station in Brazil, including the Rede Record and Rede Bandeirantes, in the 1970s and 1980s.

From March 1986 to December 2010, Camargo was on the SBT Network, where she presented the television program Hebe, which became one of the network's longest-running programs.

Hebe Camargo presented Fora do Ar, and participated in Telethon, comedy specials, and Romeu e Julieta, in which she starred with Ronald Golias and Nair Bello.

Hebe Camargo has participated in social activities, such as taking part in the Cansei movement, a 2007 protest critical of the Brazilian government.

Hebe Camargo was spending New Year's Eve in Miami when she complained of severe abdominal pain.

On 8 January 2010, Hebe Camargo was admitted to the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo for surgery to remove cancer from the peritoneum.

Hebe Camargo died on 29 September 2012, having probably suffered a cardiac arrest while she was sleeping.