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Elza Soares
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Brazilian musician (1930–2022)
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Elza Soares, born Elza Gomes da Conceição, was a Brazilian singer and jazz musician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1930 and died there in 2022. Her voice type was contralto, and she performed in the genres of samba, música popular brasileira, and bossa nova. She recorded for the Odeon and Columbia Records labels.
Soares was married to Garrincha and spoke Brazilian Portuguese. She was a member of the African Brazilians ethnic group. Her career began in 1950. She received the Brazilian Music Awards. She is also known by the married names Elza da Conceição Soares and Elza Soares.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Minha vida com Mané
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Film & TV
Acting · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Elza Soares, stage name of Elza Gomes da Conceição OMC ORB (Rio de Janeiro, June 23, 1930 – Rio de Janeiro, January 20, 2022), was a Brazilian singer, musical composer and samba-enredo performer.
Known for
- O Primeiro Beijo — Narrator (voice)2025
- Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil — Self (archive footage)2025
- Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi — Self (archive footage)2024
- Gerson King Combo – O filme2023
- Grupo Corpo Pela Música — Self2023
- Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer — Self (archive footage)2022
- Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho — Self (archive footage)2022
- Elza & Mané: Amor em Linhas Tortas — Self2022
- 2022 — Self2022
- Infinite Elza — Elza Soares2021
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2022
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 380,073
- Total plays
- 6,728,312
Tags
Elza Gomes da Conceição, known professionally as Elza Soares (June 23, 1930, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – January 20, 2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), was a Brazilian singer and songwriter, regarded as one of the biggest names of samba music and MPB. In 1999, she was elected by BBC Radio London as the Brazilian singer of the millennium. The choice originated from the British radio project The Millennium Concerts, created to celebrate the arrival of the year 2000. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/E
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,642x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
- Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews
· 2015 · cited 5,888x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elza
- Family name
- Soares
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Rio de Janeiro
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro
- Spouse
- Garrincha
- Languages spoken
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Genre
- samba
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.elzasoares.com.br
- Image
- Elza Soares.jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- Commons category
- Elza Soares
- date of birth
- 1930-06-23
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- birth name
- Elza Gomes da Conceição
- married name
- Elza Soares
- social media followers
- 101398
- date of death
- 2022-01-20
- ethnic group
- African Brazilians
- online catalog URL
- gnudb.org/artists/166768-elza-soares
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