Adoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato (6 July 1912, Valinhos - 23 November 1982, São Paulo), was a famous Brazilian traditional samba singer and composer.
João Rubinato was the seventh child of Emma and Ferdinando Rubinato, Italian immigrants from Cavarzere (province of Venice). His parents had settled in Valinhos, a rural town in the state of São Paulo, about 100 km from the city of São Paulo.
He is said to have been a rather reluctan...
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Adoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato (6 July 1912, Valinhos - 23 November 1982, São Paulo), was a famous Brazilian traditional samba singer and composer.
João Rubinato was the seventh child of Emma and Ferdinando Rubinato, Italian immigrants from Cavarzere (province of Venice). His parents had settled in Valinhos, a rural town in the state of São Paulo, about 100 km from the city of São Paulo.
He is said to have been a rather reluctant student, and started working at an early age (which required falsifying his birth date). His first job was a sweeper boy and general helper at a railway company in the nearby town of Jundiaí. In 1924 he moved to Santo André, a town in the Greater São Paulo area, where he went through many jobs — loom operator, painter, plumber, iron worker, peddler and waiter. At a local technical school (the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios) he learned the office of mechanical assistant.
In 1933 João Rubinato moved to the city of São Paulo, where he started...
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