1. Milton Santos de Almeida, known professionally as Miltinho, was a Brazilian singer of samba, sambalanco, samba-cancao and bossa nova music.
15 Facts About Miltinho
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Miltinho began his musical career in the forties integrating, along with other cariocas students, Cancioneiros do Luar group, who participated in the Tupi Radio program hosted by Ary Barroso.
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Miltinho began his career in the 1940s as a member of several vocal groups: Anjos do Inferno Namorados da Lua, Quatro Ases e Um Curinga, Milionarios do Ritmo, Cancioneiros do Luar.
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Miltinho received several awards, took part in the major television programs of the time.
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Miltinho's competing song entitled "Conselho" was critically well received in the festival.
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In total, Miltinho recorded over a hundred albums, more in the 70s, with the decline of his musical genre, bowed out in the big cities, focusing their presentations in the inner cities.
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Miltinho began from a very young age to sing sambas and play the tambourine.
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Miltinho's career took off when the manager of RCA Victor, composer Jair Amorim, proposed to record in Spanish.
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Miltinho made ten LPs of Brazilian music and began to impose their songs in Spanish.
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Miltinho suffered a cardiac arrest at the Hospital of Amparo in the north of Rio de Janeiro.
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Miltinho was hospitalized for two months for respiratory problems at the medical center.
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The body of Miltinho was cremated in the Camaro Memorial in Rio de Janeiro.
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Miltinho always said that he had learned to make peace "with god".
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The funeral of Miltinho, who left three children and five grandchildren, was held in the Memorial Chapel 3 do Carmo, in the port area of Rio de Janeiro.
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Miltinho left a wealth of songs, riding the great legacy of samba in Brazil.