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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hello Again. I'm Eves and you're listening to

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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class, a show where we dropped

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Speaker 1: history knowledge every single day. Today's February nine. The day

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Speaker 1: was February nine, nineteen o nine. Singer, dancer and actress

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Speaker 1: Carmen Miranda was born. Miranda was known for the fruit

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Speaker 1: hat and costumes that she wore in her films. Miranda

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Speaker 1: was born Maria Ducarma Miranda da Cuna in Portugal. She

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Speaker 1: was christened with the nickname Carmen in her childhood, reportedly

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Speaker 1: after the opera of the same name by George Baze.

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Speaker 1: When she was a small child, her parents moved the

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Speaker 1: family to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There her father worked

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Speaker 1: as a salesman and barber. Carmen was raised in a

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Speaker 1: strict Roman Catholic household. She went to the convent school

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Speaker 1: of Santa to Dracine, but by age fourteen she was

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Speaker 1: working to help support the family. Carmen gained an interest

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Speaker 1: in singing and dancing early on. For a while she

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Speaker 1: worked as a department store model in salesperson, she would

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Speaker 1: sing songs for her coworkers, and eventually a guitarist invited

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Speaker 1: her to sing with him on a radio show. An

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Speaker 1: American record label soon offered her a contract, and she

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Speaker 1: began recording songs and getting offers to perform at nightclubs.

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Speaker 1: Though her father was initially against Carmen being a performer,

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Speaker 1: Carmen continued to record songs with composer and violinist Josua Jubajo's.

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Speaker 1: Her early records struggled to gain an audience, but by

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty she had recorded Pravose Go star didju Meme,

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Speaker 1: a traditional Brazilian marches song by composer Joebert jou Carvaljo.

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Speaker 1: At that point, Miranda and her singing style became more popular.

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Speaker 1: She may her on screen debut in the short film

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Speaker 1: AVOs Giu Carnoval, which was released in ninety three. Two

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Speaker 1: years later, she appeared in her first feature film, 'allo

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Speaker 1: 'allo rassil. She continued to make more films and toured

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Speaker 1: across South America, usually backed by her own band named

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Speaker 1: Banda Daluna. By nineteen thirty nine, she had made hundreds

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Speaker 1: of records and had become a celebrity throughout the continent.

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Speaker 1: When Philadelphia theater manager Lee Schubert saw Miranda at a

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Speaker 1: nightclub in Rio. He offered her a role on Broadway.

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Speaker 1: Audiences and critics took notice of the Brazilian bombshell as

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Speaker 1: she eventually came to be known. She dressed in her

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Speaker 1: spin on the Clothes Women in Bahia War, donning long

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Speaker 1: flared skirts, halter tops with ruffled sleeves, platform shoes, a

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Speaker 1: lot of jewelry, and a turban with a basket of

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Speaker 1: fruit on top. She's sang in Portuguese, so she gained

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Speaker 1: a lot of popularity in the United States when she

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Speaker 1: returned to Brazil after the Broadway show closed. Some Brazilians

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Speaker 1: and Argentineans were unhappy with the way she depicted their customs.

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Speaker 1: Many thought she was uplifting stereotypes of women in Latin

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Speaker 1: was being appropriative and inappropriate in her style, which was

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Speaker 1: associated with black women. Samba, of Brazilian genre that Miranda embraced,

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Speaker 1: was born in black communities. She went back to the

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Speaker 1: United States when the studio twentieth Century Fox offered her

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Speaker 1: a contract. Miranda's colorful Garb inspired fashion trends in the US.

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Speaker 1: By ninety Miranda was the highest paid entertainer in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: Miranda often appeared in films that helped promote the US

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Speaker 1: is Good Neighbor policy, making her a sort of goodwill

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Speaker 1: ambassador representing Brazil and other South American countries. Over the years,

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Speaker 1: Miranda became a household name in the US. Her musical

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Speaker 1: career flourished even as her film career declined. For the

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Speaker 1: most part, Miranda kept her private life under wraps. She

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Speaker 1: died in California in August of nine. Though her image

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Speaker 1: was controversial, her music had global appeal and shot her

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Speaker 1: to the status of a superstar who drew attention to

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Speaker 1: samba music and Brazilian culture. I'm Eve Chef Code and

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