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Valdo Alves
Valdo Alves was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1931 and grew up around music, with his father being a samba composer. He spent time in Rio's favela samba scene as...
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Canção Para Luciana
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Colapso Moderno (Samba da Negação)
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Denúncia (Apolítica)
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Maria Bahia
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Memórias
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Nação Baiana
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Nossa Rua
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Retrato
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Samba do Machista
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Shana Mundana
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Superpotências
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Álbum de Família
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Nossa Rua
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Valdo Alves was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1931 and grew up around music, with his father being a samba composer. He spent time in Rio's favela samba scene as a young man, picking up the rhythms that would inform his own work.
In 1963, he released "Samba do Machista," a song that sparked national debate about gender roles in Brazil. Some heard it as satire, others as straightforward celebration of male dominance.
He kept writing through it all, putting out albums like "Valdo Alves e Sua Gente" in 1966 and "Samba de Todos os Tempos" in 1970. Other songs in his catalog include "Maria Bahia," "Álbum de Família," and "Canção Para Luciana."
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