| Inezita Barroso | |
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Inezita Barroso in 2008. Picture: Sílvio Tanaka |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima |
| Born | March 4, 1925 |
| Origin | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Occupations | Singer, Musician |
| Instruments | Viola caipira |
| Labels | Independent |
| Website | www.inezitabarroso.com.br |
Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima (born March 4, 1925 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian folk singer and TV host (since 1980 she is the hostess of Viola, Minha Viola at TV Cultura, a Brazilian television network) who has also done some acting.[1] She is noted for supporting or reviving songs from the caipira.
She became interested in music from an early point and after her marriage she managed to get the support needed to do so. By the 1950s she had had a few hits, but her fondness for traditional folk and rural music kept her from being "mainstream" in Brazilian music. Despite, or perhaps because of, that she gained a following in rural Brazil even though she was an urbanite herself.[2]