Carmen Miranda traveled a lot, but not enough to return to the birthplace of February 9, 1909 and it came out with only ten months to Brazilianize first, and Americanize after.
But what would she do in Lowland Sheep, where then there was not – there is still no – avenues, Copacabana, skyscrapers and movie studios with stars (she would say stars , although it was always more faithful to “I love you” than “I love you”) size and sarcasm Groucho Marx? Worse still, where she would arrange bananas and pineapples to their hats Tutti-Frutti , and above all your favorite English word, “ money money money “basic necessity whose scarcity continues to feed successive waves emigration across the county Marco de Canaveses (though longer for Brazil, as was tradition passed down from parents to children and grandparents to grandchildren)?
You can not not think about it when will the path Lowland Sheep – or, to be more precise, the Church of St. Martin of Relieved, where Carmen Miranda (aka Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha) was duly baptized before leaving for Brazil in a steamboat and where Wednesday, the night he spent 60 years on death “ Brazilian bombshell “, possibly the star more Technicolor Technicolor entire generation a Big Band Lisbon come to kill girl missing ever returned to earth but there left the name of streets, bars, museums and cafes. And especially many cousins
A4 above, towards Marco de Canaveses (the Avelino Ferreira Torres, but also that of Caetano Veloso and David Byrne:. “Canaveses Marco is the name of the land where iaroxum born / And the taste of eath flower is sweet / So why do they say she’s a bad girl ? “). Then the road zigzags that always end up going to a river, Romanesque churches that only open on Sunday: we are lost, but I will not be far because the road berm coffee that appears when it becomes unfeasible to continue with no indication has the her name, Carmen Miranda.
If I had not gone to Brazil, Carmen Miranda could have spent a part of his life here over the counter. Also called Maria do Carmo, the owner, but never Brazilianized: her mother, who was born in Brazil, daughter of Portuguese immigrants, is that “come here little” and eventually anglicized. The story of Carmen Miranda, despite having just wrong, it’s much more exciting: “We are proud success she made across borders. If so many people are proud of it and it is not here on earth, imagine what it is for us. “
On the wall, the poster of the popular dance that Real Combo Lisbonense, City Hall Marco de Canaveses and the US prepared for “the 60th anniversary of the disappearance Small Remarkable” occupies the same space of the calls for Bifana Cup organized by the Cultural Group and Desportivo de Gouveia. Next door there is a much larger photo of Carmen Miranda smiling at the lens, “though a bit sad”
By the way:. First left, straight ahead to the bridge over the Sheep River, after right, and left again by Carmen Miranda Street. Missing two hours to the concert and not long two of the many Carmen Miranda materials will not arrive in Brazil but will come to Madeira.
A fact-three dresses
Even more than Feliciano (the master of ceremonies of the Royal Combo Lisbonense, mentor not only the band as the whole project You Saudade – At turns with Carmen Miranda ), Maria Virginia Ferreira is a great hostess of the ball. They asked him loaned land to install the stage down the street, and the little house where he lives still gives electricity, pens, bottle opener and the key to the church, which will be open at night (and all lit up, not only with images the great diva of Lowland Sheep as with the logo of the US …) so that outsiders can see the sink where his cousin Carmen was baptized.
“I am proud”, as was “proud “for the father, Oscar, he rather cousin, almost foster brother,” was born in the same house that Carmen in the same cradle that Carmen. Her parents came to come here and have always kept in touch by letter. Once they sent a white suit for my father – was what he liked best, if the leave was always white, the Brazilian. And for Mary Grace sent a dress that gave her to do other three. “
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