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Edivaldo Souza (10 January 1938 – 24 April 2025), better known by his artistic names Edy, Edy Souza (at the beginning of his career) and Edy Star, was a Brazilian singer, composer, actor, dancer, theatre producer, television presenter and artist. Having started working in entertainment as a child, he worked in various fields and in various genres, primarily with Brazilian burlesque (called chanchada), cabarets and revue theatre. Born and raised in the state of
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, in the
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of Brazil, he would move to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in the late 1960s, both of which by that point became the major entertainment centres of Brazil. Star would go on, during the 70s, to become involved in avant-garde works, including the album '' Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista Apresenta Sessão das 10'' with
Raul Seixas Raul Santos Seixas (; 28 June 1945 – 21 August 1989) was a Brazilian rock musician foundational to the genre.allmusic Biography/ref> ''Rolling Stone'' Brazil named Seixas among the greatest artists in Brazilian music. Throughout his career, S ...
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Sérgio Sampaio Sérgio Moraes Sampaio (April 13, 1947 — May 15, 1994) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. His compositions span several musical genres from samba and choro to rock and roll, blues and ballads. Sampaio was considered an outsider name (" m ...
, and Miriam Batucada. He became known later on for his vulgar performances that challenged the limits of societal attitudes towards sexuality at the time. After having initially begun his performances in the then-rundown Praça Mauá in Rio de Janeiro, and, afterwards, continuing on to perform in locations often frequented by the upper class, such as the night clubs ''Number One'' and ''Up's''. He later became known for his performances of
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. His success with his performances in Brazil led to the recording of his first album, ''Sweet Edy''. He also worked in theatre and in television for the rest of that decade and into the 1980s. In the 1990s, Edy Star moved to Spain, where he continued to work at theatres and as a producer at night clubs. After living there for 20 years, he returned to Brazil and began singing again, relaunching his first album, as well as a new album, titled ''Cabaré Star'', in 2017. He was also known for his shows that mixed various styles of theatre and challenged the social conventions on sexuality at the time, being one of the first artists in Brazil to come out as gay.


Biography

Star was born in
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on 10 January 1938, to a bookkeeper from an upper-middle class family from
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and a homemaker from a poor family in Juazeiro. His father had as a pastime amateur photography. He also worked as a football referee, and was refereeing a match in Juazeiro when he met Star's mother. His father's family did not approve of the relationship due to the socioeconomic status of his mother, but his father insisted on marrying her and moved to Juazeiro. Star, on turning a year old, moved with his family to Salvador. With his siblings, he had a happy childhood in Salvador, living in a large house with a garden replete with banana, coconut, and mango trees. One of his childhood passions was reading. He read comics and magazines such as '' O Tico Tico'', '' Captain Marvel,
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'', '' Almanaque Vida Infantil'', ''Revista da Semana'', ''
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'', and ''Revista do Globo''. By 17, he also read many authors such as
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Érico Veríssimo Érico Lopes Verissimo (December 17, 1905 – November 28, 1975) was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Biography Érico Verissimo was the son of Sebastião Verissimo da Fonseca and Abegahy Lopes Verissimo. Hi ...
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Jorge Amado Jorge Amado ( 10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, includi ...
. Another passion of his in childhood was music. At home, he mainly listened to radio stations Nacional and Mayrink Veiga, along with local programs with Rádio Sociedade da Bahia — mainly ''A Hora da Criança''. His father also used to take him to the studios which were led by teacher and journalist Adroaldo Ribeiro Costa. As he arrived home, he would improvise a microphone and stage in the garden and sing with his brothers. His first stage performance was when he was 13. His father observed the improvised sessions and signed him on to play at ''A Hora da Criança''. During rehearsals done at Passeio Público de Salvador, he took theatre classes and participated in operetta montages based on works by Monteiro Lobato. Along with his passions, Star always very much liked to design, which led him to become a plastic artist as well. At 20 years old, he took courses at
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and became a specialist in petroleum, working with the business as support and a production technician until 1961. At the beginning of the 1960s, Star received the nickname ''Bofélia'' as a reference to the character ''Ofélia'', played by actress Sônia Mamede on ''Balança Mas Não Cai'', broadcast by Rádio Nacional at that time.


Career


Early beginnings

Before working at Petrobras, Star had already participated in performances at a circus, against the wishes of his father who did not want his son to begin an artistic career. After being fired from Petrobras in 1961, he went on to start exhibitions of his paintings in Salvador, going by the name Edy Souza. He lived in the Boa Viagem neighborhood when he met Waldir Serrão and joined his rock and roll fan club, ''Elvis Club Rock'', beginning to meet superficially a young
Raul Seixas Raul Santos Seixas (; 28 June 1945 – 21 August 1989) was a Brazilian rock musician foundational to the genre.allmusic Biography/ref> ''Rolling Stone'' Brazil named Seixas among the greatest artists in Brazilian music. Throughout his career, S ...
, at that point at just 15 years old. He began to rehearse rock with Serrão and keyboard player Thildo Gama, participating in various shows with the "turma do rock" in Salvador. At the same time, he met
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and
Maria Bethânia Maria Bethânia Viana Teles Veloso (; born 18 June 1946) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. Born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, she started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião" ("Opinion"), she is "The Queen of Brazilian Musi ...
, going and frequenting parties with the two siblings. In 1964, he came into contact with
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, already known as a singer for his performances on TV Itapoan. The two would come to compose a song together, "Procissão", which would be the first single released by Gil on his first album,
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, released in 1967. However, the co-authorship with Edy Star would only be recognized by Gil decades after. Not long after, Edy went on to perform with Caetano, Maria Bethânia, Gil and the youth that liked bossa nova in Bahia, which included
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and
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as well. Meanwhile, when they presented the special Nós, Por Exemplo..., which had its inaugural show at Teatro Vila Velha, which would reach a large audience for this group, Star did not take part, presenting a folklore show called ''Galeria Bazarte'', mainly a handful of blocks while there. Though
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had seen both shows, Star was not called when Boal took the rest of the group to São Paulo so that they could debut in the special ''Arena Canta Bahia'', at
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. As a result, Star had maintained himself, since the beginning, as someone who would traverse the different cultural movements in Bahia, participating in both the "turma do rock" with Serrão and Seixas, as well as the "turma do Vila Velha", with Gil and Caetano. Afterwards, he entered the ''Companhia Baiana de Comédias'', presenting theatrical pieces in rural parts of various states in the northeast. This eventually took him to
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where, beginning in 1966, he established himself in the city of
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. Meanwhile, he also attempted a career as an artistic producer with TV Jornal do Commercio in
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. His career took a turn when he starred in, together with Teca Calazans, the trendy musical ''Memórias de Dois Cantadores'', which they performed in Recife in August 1967 and was accompanied by musicians
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Geraldo Azevedo Geraldo Azevedo de Amorim (born January 11, 1945) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is famous for his contributions to the Brazilian popular music (MPB) scene, especially his partnerships with Alceu Valença and Zé Ramalho ...
( guitars), Generino (flute) , and
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(percussions). The play received numerous awards at the Festival de Teatro de Pernambuco in 1968, including for best musical, best figure, and best group. The musicals success opened the door for Edy Star to be invited, along with Naná Vasconcelos, to go to Rio de Janeiro to defend the song "Dia Cheio De Ogum", by composer Capiba, at the ''O Brasil Canta no Rio'' festival in December 1968. Though the song was not billed for the festival, it reached the final. There was later the release of an album with the 12 finalists through CID, a subsidiary of record label Itamaraty, Edy Stars record debut. At the end of 1967, Edy Star returned to Bahia and became a artistic producer and presenter on TV Itapoan in Salvador. While there, producing and presenting the program ''Poder Jovem'', he saw the arrival of new names such as
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and
Moraes Moreira Antônio Carlos Moreira Pires (July 8, 1947 – April 13, 2020), better known as Moraes Moreira , was a Brazilian musician and songwriter. During the 1970s he played guitar and sang in the band Novos Baianos, after which he embarked on a s ...
, at a time before they formed the
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, Maria Creuza, and Antônio Carlos e Jocáfi. Along with these, he appeared while singing on a program by Serrão on Rádio Cultura. It was on this program he met Seixas, who at that point lead the group Raulzito e os Panteras, a rock band that was widely known in Bahia for their performances while accompanying other artists, especially those connected to the
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en vogue in the state at that time. Star went on to have radio hits by singing from the repertoires of Jerry Adriani, Wanderley Cardoso,
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, having as his most well known song a cover of the song La Bamba, where some sections of the audience did not like as much the more effeminate mannerisms that Star had. Meanwhile, after a difficult start, they soon became good friends. In 1968, Seixas went to Rio de Janeiro at the invite of Adriano to record an album for their group, but were not successful in creating any hits. However, after briefly to Bahia, he returned to Rio to become a producer at
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, again for works by Adriani. Star continued dividing his time between radio and TV and, during this time period, participating in various festivals with many different artists, including having personally met
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With the Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista

In 1970, Star sought to pay late salaries while presenting a program live at TV Itapoan, summarily resulting in his dismissal. While going to a bar to take his mind off the situation, he found Seixas who invited him to go to Rio to work as an employee at Discos CBS, where Seixas had been a producer. This arrangement made it so that Star had enough to get by with periodic payments under the headings of "research rights" and "related rights". Seixas soon got his friend to record a compact CD produced by him, "Aqui É Quente, Bicho", by Seixas himself, and a cover of
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" sung by mutual friend Leno. Leno and Seixas were inseparable by 1970, as Seixas produced Vida e Obra de Johnny McCartney for him. The project ended up not being released, however, due to censorship issues. The project would be released in 1995 as a double compact disc that would have been released in 1971. Meanwhile, in January 1971, Seixas met
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when he was accompanying composer Odibar for an audition with the label. Despite Odibar having left, Seixas brought Sampaio on when he played a composition of his titled "Chorinho Inconsequente". As a result, they became inseparable friends beginning in 1971. Seixas had decided to create a conceptual album, in the image of
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; and Tropicalia ou Panis et Circencis by
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. As such, he would see in Sampaio an ideal partner to go through with a Brazilian conceptual album, that would mix together influences from music both in Brazil and abroad. As they had decided to unite a diverse group to undertake the effort, they soon called on Star. Difficulties began to emerge when they wanted a female voice to add. They initially thought about
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, the then girlfriend of Odair José, and Lílian, at that point in a duo with Leno, but they were both taken out of consideration due to their relationships. Another singer that was considered was Lena Rios, a singer from the state of
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who began her career by singing a song composed by Seixas at the 1972 International Festival of Song. After also being taken out of consideration, Star remembered a well-humored singer he had seen when he performed at a nightclub in Rio, ''Boate Drink'', by Djalma Ferreira. When they called Miriam Batucada, she soon gained among them the nickname ''Dr. Silvana'', due to the large pair of glasses she had used and reminded them of the DC Comics character. The recordings of '' Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista Apresenta Sessão das 10'' began in the last week of June 1971 and ended on the first week of the following month. The four produced a lot of material for the album, but various songs were cut due to censorship. In the end, they recorded 12 tracks where they divided the vocals, which were accompanied by members of the bands
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and Lafayette e seu Conjunto, all interspersed by humorous vignettes. The production was done by Seixas and Mauro Motta, with arrangements by Ian Guest. The launch of the album occurred on 21 July and the album came to receive positive reviews from major figures of the Brazilian counterculture at the time:
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, in his column at '' Última Hora''; and philsopher Luiz Carlos Maciel, who wrote for the weekly newspaper ''
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.'' They also did interviews and were subject to a cartoon by
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. Nonetheless, Edy Star had his career interrupted by a unilateral decision from the label's president, Evandro Ribeiro, to take him out of stores, less than two months after the album's launch. The sales of the album at the time were hard to estimate due to his short career, but some of his songs began to be played on radio and had an impact on the counterculture scene in Rio de Janeiro. There were many rumors around the album, spread mainly by Seixas and Sampaio: they said that the album had been the most expensive album produced in Brazil up to that point; or that an Egyptian harp had been sent to be brought to São Paulo to play only one chord; or even that the group had recorded the album while hidden, at night, so that nobody at CBS would know and that, for this reason, Seixas, who was a successful producer for the label, would have been fired for. All of these rumors were considered a marketing tactic by Seixas and Sampaio, and were summarily disproven by Edy Star in interviews after their deaths.


Edy becomes a Star

After the album with the Kavernistas, the group left Discos CBS in 1972, bothered by the lack of opportunities and the conservative nature of the label that had blocked them from pursuing new paths, instead preferring already used tropes. In this style, Edy Star went on to work at cabarets and nightclubs at Praça Mauá, with performances influenced by the theatre troupe Dzi Croquettes, led by Lennie Dale. In one of them, for example, they made a parody of the 1972 film ''
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.'' Edy, performed in the parody, including a scene at the end of the show imitating
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receiving the Oscar for Best Actress. In other shows, he challenged the societal conventions at the time to parade completely nude women and dwarfs on stage, a number of lesbian cast members, and stripteases. It was at one of these shows, while at ''Boate Cowboy'' that Star was seen by
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and
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, who both wrote for
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, and invited him for an interview. The interview was a success (although headlines that used the term "androgynous" had been censored) and brought an influx of young intellectuals and artists to watch Edy at Praça Mauá, along with opening other opportunities in more famous places, including in São Paulo, such as ''Up's'' night club. During this time, he adopted the stage name of Edy Star. That same year, he also took part in revues at Teatro Rival, considered a place of "resistance" against generic theatre that had changed its name to ''Café Concerto'', at the time, due to the work of its new owner, Américo Leal. In one of its shows, they made a satirical piece that imitated Maria Alcina, which was seen by the singer and her business partner, Mauro Furtado. It gave such a good impression that the performance gave way for Edy Star to perform at the ''Number One'' nightclub, a gathering place for the elite in the
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. The reduto da alta sociedade na zona sul carioca. The businessman helped Edy to create an instrumental trio and, whats more, got two vocalists to accompany him: Áurea Martins and
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, whom had already worked as crooners at the nightclub. The high point of the show was the performance of a
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called "Hipócrita" where he would sit on the laps of people in the audience and slap them in the face. One night, one of those whose faces was slapped was the son of the then chief minister of the Military Cabinet,
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, who would become the last president of the
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. Even still, various people from the upper class would go to see his show, including, among others, Yolanda Costa e Silva, the widow of former president
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. While at ''Number One'' in 1973, the president of the label
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, João Araújo, watched a performance of his and offered a contract to Edy to record an album. As such, ''Sweet Edy'', his debut album, was released in 1974. The album, produced by Guto Graça Mello, contains songs by many of the great composers from the period, made specially for Star, including: Renato Piau, Sérgio Natureza, Roberto and
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, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Moraes Moreira e Luiz Galvão,
Jorge Mautner Henrique George Mautner (born January 17, 1941), better known by his stage name Jorge Mautner, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, violinist, actor, screenwriter, and poet, considered to be a pioneer of the Música popular brasileira, MP ...
, Getúlio Côrtes, Leno, and Raul Seixas. Unreleased songs included those by
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,
Zé Rodrix Zé Rodrix (; 25 November 1947 – 22 May 2009) was a Brazilian composer, instrumentalist, and singer. He was well known in his native country for performing with musical ensembles Sá & Guarabyra, Sá, Rodrix & Guarabyra, Som Imaginário and Mom ...
and
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. The album had low sales, but it had been well received by critics, who focused on the artistic persona of Star and on the all-star cast of composers that wrote music for him. With the passage of time, he would gain a cult following that represented, along with the debut album of
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, the influence of
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musicians such as
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,
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, and
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(of T. Rex) on Brazilian music.


Rocky Horror Show

At the end of 1974, producer Guilherme Araújo, who had been the group's businessman, called Star for a meeting at the house of fellow producer Kao Rossman. They informed Star that they had acquired the rights to create a Portuguese rendition of
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's
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: the production would be done by Araújo and Rossman, with the translation done by Rossman and Jorge Mautner. It was to be directed by Rubens Corrêa. The intention was to call various artists connected to rock, including
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, Zé Rodrix, Raul Seixas, and Jorge Mautner, and, because of this, Star was to play the role of Frank-N-Furter. When he read the text of the play, he rejected the invitation, as he saw the play as a parody of
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from decades past, and that the text was not translated to take into account the culturally specific context in Brazil. He also thought that the musical would be less serious and too lowbrow. After Star rejected the offer, as did other musicians, they decided to go with professional actors. The piece made its debut on 14 February 1975 at ''Teatro da Praia'', and the cast participated in the recording of an album by Som Livre. Released the same month, it was titled ''Rock Horror Show'' with composition by
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. The cast included Zé Rodrix, Kao Rossman, Diana Strella, Wolf Maya, Acácio Gonçalves,
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, Betina Viany, Lucélia Santos, and
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. As predicted by Star, though the performances received good reviews by the public, the audiences would be silent, not showing much enthusiasm for what should have been a comedic piece. As such, when Conde found it would be impossible to continue due to suffering from hepatitis, Star was asked by Araújo to substitute him. Along with the main actor, the play also lost their director. As a result, Araújo and Rossman gave a blank slate to Star for him to make changes to the musical to make it more comedic. He added a comedic (or chanchada) character to the piece, based on his experiences with cabaret and revue theatre. From the beginning, the cast resisted his changes, asking that he be replaced. However, with the large public success that they would garner later own, they would later embrace the changes. With the success of the musical, Star would go on to participate in musical programs at
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and
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, along with his work in theatres and nightclubs. At the end of the 1970s, due to the rise of the disco era, he created a group called ''Zaza Big Circus'' which included Eduardo Rossler, Ernesto Grandelli, Gilberto Costa, Renato Castello, and Sydnei Beker. The idea was created as a mixture of ''Dzi Croquettes'' and
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to produce something that resembled cabaret, chanchada, and revue theatre, but with the usage of disco rhythms. An album was to be released by CBS and produced by Rodrix and Gabriel O'Meara, but due to delays, the idea ultimately did not go forward.


Theatre and move to Spain

Starting in the 1980s, Star began to produce, write, and direct theatre play, including the comedy ''A Gargalhada do Peru'', written in homage to Virgínia Lane and starred herself, Star, Leda Lúcia, and
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. In 1984, he was invited by Araújo to participate in a
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dance party ''Gala Gay'' at Scala Rio nightclub. The play was a massive public and critical success, and was played in theatres for 10 years. Some time after, a remake of his of ''Le Bel Indifférent'' by
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, which took him to the Festival de Teatro en Primavera in Madrid, Spain in 1992. At one point while there, he was invited with his group to participate in the celebrations for the
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in Barcelona. He decided afterwards to move to Spain, first to Barcelona, then to Madrid. There, he worked as a master of ceremonies at cabarets and nightclubs such as ''Chelsea II''. Even still, he continued to work in theatre, including ''Un Payaso Perdido en Madrid'', winning the awards for Best Actor of Alternative Theatre and Revelation Group at the ''V Muestra Alternativa Internacional de Teatro de Otoño'' in 1995.


Return to Brazil and rediscovery

After living for nearly 18 years in Spain, Star was invited by the Secretary of Culture of the city of São Paulo to present at the Virada Cultural Paulista in May 2009. For his performances remaking the entire album with the Kavernistas was considered by
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as the best show of the ''20 Anos sem Raul'' show. The success led him to be invited to remake the special the following year, and he decided to definitively return to Brazil. The success of his performances and his return to the country led to him being rediscovered to a wider audience, with new shows and even the rerelease of his debut album by the record label Joia Moderna in 2012. In 2017, he launched his second studio album, ''Cabaré Star'', with production by
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One of his most famous songs is "Salão de Beleza", which was featured on ...
, leaving the label for Saravá Discos. Star repeated the formula of the first album, bringing on an all-star cast of composers (including songs by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso,
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, Odair José, Zé Rodrix,
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, Sérgio Sampaio, and Miriam Batucada) and guest appearances by Caetano Veloso,
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,
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, Zeca Baleiro, Catto,
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, and Seixas. The album received many positive reviews by the media and was followed by release tour by Star. In 2023, he released the album ''Meu Amigo Sérgio Sampaio'', with rerecordings of songs by Sampaio, with participations by Maria Alcina, Renato Piau, and Zeca Baleiro.


Death

Edy Star died in São Paulo on 24 April 2025, at the age of 87. He had been hospitalized at Hospital Heliópolis due to complications of insufficient breathing, acute renal failure, and acute pancreatitis.


Career as a plastic artist

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. His works are in museums and collections by Brazilian artists. As a plastic artist, Star has an entry in the Dicionário de Artes Plásticas do Brasil, made by Roberto Pontual.


Legacy

Edy Star was the first Brazilian artist to reveal that he was gay in an interview to the magazine ''Fatos & Fotos'' in 1973. Along with this, he is known for his style of mixing music and theatre, having been a pioneer towards the introduction of glam rock to Brazil, though this came with the challenge of the limits imposed on artists during the
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.


Discography

Discography listed on Discogs, along with the Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira, and by IMMUB.


CDs

* 1970 - ''Aqui É Quente, Bicho!'' / ''Matilda'' -
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* 1974 - ''Baiock'' / ''Ai de Mim'' -
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Studio albums

* 1974 - ''Sweet Edy'' -
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* 2017 - ''Cabaré Star'' - Saravá Discos


With the Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista

* 1971 - '' Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista Apresenta Sessão das 10'' -
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(with
Raul Seixas Raul Santos Seixas (; 28 June 1945 – 21 August 1989) was a Brazilian rock musician foundational to the genre.allmusic Biography/ref> ''Rolling Stone'' Brazil named Seixas among the greatest artists in Brazilian music. Throughout his career, S ...
,
Sérgio Sampaio Sérgio Moraes Sampaio (April 13, 1947 — May 15, 1994) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. His compositions span several musical genres from samba and choro to rock and roll, blues and ballads. Sampaio was considered an outsider name (" m ...
, and Miriam Batucada)


With Zaza Big Circus

* 1979 - ''Por uma Alegria Ampla, Geral e Irrestrita!'' -
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Participations

* 1968 - ''O Brasil Canta no Rio'' - CID (Itamaraty) (track 5) * 1974 - '' Corrida do Ouro - Trilha Sonora Original'' -
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(track 9) * 2006 - ''Erasmo 65 - Na Estrada'' -
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(track 15 of disc 2) * 2011 - ''Carrossel de Baco'' (with Carrossel de Baco. Track 2) * 2012 - ''100 anos de Gonzagão'' - ''Lua Music'' (Track 11 of disc 3) * 2013 - Abaixo a Cueca - Paulo Azeviche (Track 1, "Abaixo a Cueca", authored by
Zé Rodrix Zé Rodrix (; 25 November 1947 – 22 May 2009) was a Brazilian composer, instrumentalist, and singer. He was well known in his native country for performing with musical ensembles Sá & Guarabyra, Sá, Rodrix & Guarabyra, Som Imaginário and Mom ...
and
Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho de Souza ( , ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel '' The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller. Early life Paulo Coelho ...
) * 2018 - ''
Dalva de Oliveira Dalva de Oliveira or Vicentina de Paula Oliveira (May 5, 1917 – August 31, 1972) was a Brazilian singer and one of "divas" of the "Radio Era." Her greatest hits included "Segredo" (Secret) (1947), "Tudo acabado" (It's All Over) (1950), "Ave ...
- 100 Anos ao Vivo'' - Biscoito Fino (Track 13 of disc 1)


Videography

Videography by IMMUB.


Participation

2011 - ''Sexo MPB - O Show'' -
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(Track 9)


References


Bibliography

* Moreira, Rodrigo. ''Eu quero é botar meu bloco na rua: a biografia de Sérgio Sampaio''. 2 ed. rev. e ampl. Niterói: Muiraquitã, 2003. {{DEFAULTSORT:Star, Edy 1938 births 2025 deaths People from Juazeiro Artists from Salvador, Bahia Musicians from Salvador, Bahia Brazilian bloggers Brazilian LGBTQ dancers 20th-century Brazilian LGBTQ people 21st-century Brazilian LGBTQ people Brazilian gay artists Brazilian LGBTQ composers Brazilian LGBTQ singers Brazilian male dancers Brazilian gay entertainers Brazilian expatriates in Spain