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Cartola
Angenour de Oliveira, aka Cartola, was a Brazilian performer who did much to
grow the popularity of samba music in the 1930s. He made several recordings but
in the 1940s abandoned his career only to return to gain great commercial
success in the '60s and '70s.
Born into poverty, he became an sought after stonemason before turning to music
with his guitar and started to write songs often recorded by his young daughter
Creusa. His later disappearance led to reports that he had died but he
re-emerged in the '60s to open a venue called Zicartola where samba became
renowned.
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