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Acertei No Milhar by Jorge Veiga

Artist Biography For Jorge Veiga

Jorge Veiga Jorge De Oliveira Veiga - April 14 1910 Rio De Janeiro - June 29 1979 Rio De Janeiro Departed From A Life Of Misery As A Shoe-Shiner And Doer Of Small Jobs To A Highly Successful Career As A Samba Singer. His Specialty Were Humorous Carnival Sambas And Sambas-De-Breque In Which The Figure Of The Malandro Street Smart Was Frequently Central. Veiga Started His Artistic Life In 1934 Singing In Circuses Throughout Rio's Working-Class Suburbs. After A While He Was Given An Opportunity To Perform In The Rádio Educadora. Singing And Acting He Toured The North In A Theater Company. In 1943 He Was Already Regularly Popular When He Met Araci De Almeida Who Introduced Him To The Artistic Director Of Rádio Tamoio Fernando Lobo . His First Record Was His First Hit "Iracema" Raul Marques/Otolino Lopes 1944. In The Next Year Had A Big Smash With "Rosalinda" Wilson Batista/Haroldo Lobo . In 1946 He Repeated The Dose With "Vou Sambar Em Madureira" Haroldo Lobo/Milton De Oliveira These Were The Same Composers Of His Great Hit Of 1947 "Eu Quero É Rosetar" . In The Carnival Of 1954 He Had A Hit With "História Da Maçã" Haroldo Lobo/Milton De Oliveira/Claudionor Santos And Won The Carnival Contest With "Não Posso Mais" Idem . In The Same Year Had One Of His Biggest Ones With "Estatutos Da Gafieira" Billy Blanco . In 1964 He Had Another Success With "Bigorrilho" Paquito/Romeu Gentil/Sebastião Gomes And In The Next Year With "Bigu" Idem . He Would Have Several Other Hits Like "Café Soçaite" Miguel Gustavo . In 1972 He Won The VI Festival Of Carnival Songs In 1972 At The Maracanãzinho Rio With The Samba "Mágoa" Ataylor De Souza/Paulo Filho .

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