Carmen Miranda - South American Way - 1940

Description

She is known as the Brazilian Bombshell and the Queen of Samba, but is not a native of Brazil where she has a cult following till this day. One of six children of a barber father and seamstress mother, she was born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha on Feb. 9, 1909, in a small town in Portugal; the family relocated to Rio when she was a toddler. Musically gifted, she practiced songs with the family goat as sole audience member. She was the first resident of South America to leave impressions at ...