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Djonga
Gustavo Pereira Marques (born 4 June 1994), better known by his artistic name Djonga, is a Brazilian rapper, singer, and composer. Considered one of the most influential names currently on the Brazilian rap scene, the artist has attracted attention for his direct and strongly worded lyrics with strong social criticisms. He frequently collaborates with producer Coyote Beatz. Biography Born in the favela of Favela do Índio, in the city of Belo Horizonte, Djonga was raised in the São Lucas and Santa Efigênia neighborhoods in the eastern region of the city. He is the son of Ronaldo Marques and Rosângela Pereira Marques. His grandmother Maria Eni Viana has been a great source of inspiration throughout his life. With a great deal of inspiration coming from his family, Djonga had taken a likening to music since his youth, having been raised on diverse musical genres and artists, from Milton Nascimento to Racionais MCs, and from Cartola to Mariah Carey. Djonga has asserted that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coyote Beatz
Paulo Alexandre Almeida Santos, better known by his stage name Coyote Beatz or simply Coyote, is a Brazilian hip hop producer, DJ, and member of the underground hip hop group DV tribo. Coyote is known for his work with Brazilian rapper Djonga, although he has worked with various artists, including Emicida, , Fenda, FBC, among others. Career In 2013, Coyote Beatz and Djonga worked together for the first time. Gradually, the Brazilian music producer began to gather recognition in the Hip Hop scene with his diverse boom bap and Trap music, trap instrumentals. During this period, Coyote also presented his beats at local events in Belo Horizonte, mainly organized by the ''Família de Rua'' collective at the Duelo de MCs. Some notable work from Coyote can be encountered in Djonga's album ''Histórias da Minha Área''. Coyote also produced Emicida's single ''Papel, Caneta e Coração'', which was well received in Brazil and aided the music producer in obtaining some initial notoriety. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot E Oreia
Hot e Oreia was a Brazilian rap duo made up of Mario Apocalypse "Hot" do Nascimento and Gustavo Rafael "Oreia" Aguiar, both from the state of Minas Gerais. They were strongly associated with producer Coyote Beatz, with whom they recorded much of their music, as well as with rap supergroup DV tribo. They were nominated for the "Clipão da P#rr@" award at the 2020 MTV MIAW Awards Brazil. The duo ended in January 2021 after Hot was accused of assault and abuse against his ex-girlfriend. History As students from Sarau Vira-Lata, a travelling project that engages artists in Belo Horizonte with poetry, and Duelo de MCs, Nascimento and Aguiar were major figures in the regional rap scene for five years. Their music utilized electronic beats and the fluid vocals of the two rappers. Hot e Oreia were known for the way they constructed the structure of their songs, with a style that used theatrics with a tone that mixed tragedy and comedy, with changes in tone and increasingly intense fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DV Tribo
DV tribo (stylized as DV TRIBO) is a rap supergroup formed Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Initially active from 2015 to 2018, they are considered one of the foremost exponents of the Golden Era of the Belo Horizonte rap scene. They are well known for their sharp societal criticism in their lyrics, which was a characteristic of all their members. Their most famous member is the rapper Djonga, who became famous after his productions with DV TRIBO and Coyote Beatz. History The supergroup was created in 2015 as a product of the rising rap collectives in Belo Horizonte, best exemplified by the Duelo de MCs, which was a huge hit in the city. Many of the collective's members came from poorer communities in the north and east of the city. Many of DV TRIBO's members were close friends prior to forming the group. They released their first single, ''Geração Elevada'', in 2016. On 3 April 2018, DV TRIBO released a statement on social media that they would be taking an indefinite hiatus. On 25 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Lima
Ana Clara Silva de Lima (born 13 July 1999), better known as Clara Lima, is a Brazilian singer, rapper, composer, and actress. She became famous in the mid-2010s after winning various rap battles in the Duelo de MCs matches in Belo Horizonte, later becoming successful with her collaborations with DV tribo. Career After becoming well known in the hip hop scene of Minas Gerais for reaching the final of Duelo Nacional de MCs, Clara Lima went on to become a member of DV tribo, a group made up of various well-known rappers from Minas Gerais. These names include those of Djonga, FBC, and Hot e Oreia Hot e Oreia was a Brazilian rap duo made up of Mario Apocalypse "Hot" do Nascimento and Gustavo Rafael "Oreia" Aguiar, both from the state of Minas Gerais. They were strongly associated with producer Coyote Beatz, with whom they recorded much of .... Her first solo EP was ''Transgressão'', produced by the record label Ceia. In 2019, Lima released the EP ''Selfie''. It was produced b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elis Regina
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 2002), known professionally as Elis Regina (), was a Brazilian singer of MPB and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano. She became nationally renowned in 1965 after singing "Arrastão" (composed by Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes) in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest and soon joined ''O Fino da Bossa'', a television program on TV Record. She was noted for her vocalization as well as for her interpretation and performances in shows. Her recordings include "Como Nossos Pais" ( Belchior), "Upa Neguinho" (E. Lobo and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), "Madalena" (Ivan Lins), "Casa no Campo" ( Zé Rodrix and Tavito), "Águas de Março" ( Tom Jobim), "Atrás da Porta" ( Chico Buarque and Francis Hime), "O Bêbado e a Equilibrista" ( Aldir Blanc and João Bosco), "Conversando no Bar" ( Milton Nascimento). Her untimely death, at the age of 56, shocked Brazil. Her son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Messias Bolsonaro (; born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who has been the 38th president of Brazil since 1 January 2019. He was elected in 2018 as a member of the Social Liberal Party, which he turned into a conservative party, before cutting ties with it. In 2021, he joined the Liberal Party. From 1991 to 2018, Bolsonaro served in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Rio de Janeiro. Bolsonaro was born in Glicério, in the state of São Paulo. He graduated from the Agulhas Negras Military Academy in 1977 and served in the Brazilian Army's field artillery and parachutist units. He became known to the public in 1986, when he wrote an article for ''Veja'' magazine criticizing low wages for military officers, after which he was arrested and detained for 15 days. A year later, the same magazine accused him of planning to plant bombs in military units, which he denied. A lower court convicted him, but the Brazilian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), known mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist, and former metalworker who is the president-elect of Brazil. A member of the Workers' Party, he was the 35th president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. After winning the 2022 Brazilian general election, he will be sworn in on 1 January 2023 as the 39th president of Brazil, succeeding Jair Bolsonaro. Of working-class origin, he migrated as a child from Pernambuco to São Paulo with his family. He began his career as a metalworker and trade unionist. During the military dictatorship in Brazil, he led major workers' strikes between 1978 and 1980, and helped start the Workers' Party in 1980, during Brazil's political opening. Lula was one of the main leaders of the Diretas Já movement which demanded democratic elections. In the 1986 Brazilian legislative election, he was elected as a federal deputy in the state of São Paulo with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Brazilian General Election
General elections were held on 2 October 2022 in Brazil to elect the president, vice president, the National Congress, the governors, vice governors, and legislative assemblies of all federative units, and the district council of Fernando de Noronha. As no candidate for president—or for governor in some states—received more than half of the valid votes in the first round, a runoff election for these offices was held on 30 October. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received the majority of the votes in the second round and became president-elect of Brazil. Incumbent far-right president Jair Bolsonaro was seeking a second term. He had been elected in 2018 as the candidate of the Social Liberal Party but left that party in 2019, followed by the resignation or dismissal of many of his ministers during his term. After a failed attempt to create the Alliance for Brazil, he joined the Liberal Party in 2021. For the 2022 election, he selected Walter Braga Netto of the same party as hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, twelfth most populous city in the country and the center of Brazil's List of metropolitan areas in Brazil, fifth largest metropolitan area, with 4,405,760 inhabitants (2010). The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian state. Porto Alegre was founded in 1769 by Manuel Jorge Gomes de Sepúlveda, who used the pseudonym José Marcelino de Figueiredo to hide his identity; but the official date is 1772 with the act signed by Immigration to Brazil, immigrants from the Azores, Portugal. The city lies on the eastern bank of the Guaíba Lake, where five rivers converge to form the Lagoa dos Patos, a giant freshwater lagoon navigable by even the largest of ships. This five-river junction has become an important alluvial port as well as a chief industrial and commercial center ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrefour
Carrefour () is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France. The eighth-largest retailer in the world by revenue, it operates a chain of hypermarkets, groceries stores and convenience stores, which as of December 2021, comprises its 13,894 stores in over 30 countries. History The first Carrefour shop (not a hypermarket) opened in 1960, within suburban Annecy, near a crossroads (hence the name, ''carrefour'' means ''crossroads'' in French). The group was created in 1958 by Marcel Fournier, Denis Defforey and Jacques Defforey, who attended and were influenced by several seminars in the United States led by "the Pope of retail" Bernardo Trujillo. The Carrefour group was the first in Europe to open a hypermarket, a large supermarket, and a department store under the same roof. They opened their first hypermarket on 15 June 1963 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, near Paris. In April 1976, Carrefour launched a private label ''Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killing Of João Alberto Silveira Freitas
On November 19, 2020, João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a 40-year-old black man, died in Porto Alegre, Brazil, after being beaten by security guards at a Carrefour unit in Passo d'Areia neighborhood. The killing triggered protests across the entire country, scheduled for the day after, November 20, Black Awareness Day. Victim and suspects João Alberto Freitas João Alberto Silveira Freitas (aged 40) was born and raised in Humaitá neighborhood, Porto Alegre. He had four children: the first, a woman, was from his first relationship and the last three from a second marriage. He lived with Milena in a stable union and the two were planning to get married. Giovane Gaspar da Silva Giovane Gaspar da Silva, aged 24 at the time, was one of the security guards arrested for the attack. He was a temporary military police officer, working for Military Brigade of Rio Grande do Sul since 2018 and allegedly did not have license to work as a private security guard. Magno Braz Borges M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal University Of Ouro Preto
The Federal University of Ouro Preto ( pt, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, UFOP) was established on August 21, 1969 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. It resulted from the merger of two century-old higher education institutions: the School of Pharmacy of Ouro Preto, founded in 1839, and the School of Mines of Ouro Preto, founded in 1876. Today is one of the most important universities of Minas Gerais and also Brazil. The university is taken as a reference throughout the country by the School of Pharmacy and Engineering. History The Pharmacy School in Ouro Preto was created from the law 140 in 1839. The law was sanctioned by Jacinto Bernardo da Veiga, President of the Province of Minas Gerais. It began the pharmaceutical education in Brazil, which did not exist in colonial times. In 1876, another institution was created in Ouro Preto: The School of Mines. It was officially inaugurated on October 12, 1876, at the request of Emperor Dom Pedro II. Its founder, Claude-Henri Gorceix sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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