Alzirinha Camargo Wiki Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

In 1964, she abandoned her artistic life and became a civil servant at the Brazilian Social Security Institute (INSS) in Rio de Janeiro.

In the following years, she performed occasionally on radio and television, and recorded some songs in the early 1960s.

She returned to Brazil in November 1953, being hired by ‘Rádio Nacional’, for the show ‘Gente que Brilha’.

Between 1950 and 1953, she toured Spain and Portugal, performing at The Estoril Casino.

, almost at the same time as Carmen Miranda, where she would work until 1949, performing alongside her husband.

One of her appearances at Pittsburgh’s The Beverly Hills Club was reviewed by ‘Variety’, a weekly entertainment publication, on its May 7, 1947 issue: “No.1 attraction still remains Alzira Camargo (…). When Miss Carmargo bursts into one of her Brazilian ballads, the enth-e room seems to catch fire.”.

She performed at the Central Theatre, Passaic (NJ), on March 5, 1943. The Theatre’s double feature program, a stage performance supplemented with a film, included the screening of Thru Different Eyes (1942).

In 1940, she left for the U. S.

In 1938 she would perform at ‘Radio El Mundo’, Buenos Aires, Argentina, alongside the ‘Regional de Benedito Lacerda’, a Brazilian music orchestra led by Benedito Lacerda, who would compose ‘Meu Buenos Aires querido’ especially for her, and recorded by the group. The following year, she performed at ‘Cassino Atlântico’ with the ‘South American Orchestra’ led by her future husband, Ciro Rimac.

After establishing a career in São Paulo’s radio stations, she was invited by Silvia Autuori (known as ‘Tia Chiquinha’) to Rio de Janeiro, in November 1935, where she signed a successful contract with Radio Tupi’ and her career took off. A year later, she would record her first album at ‘RCA Victor Brasileira’, including the hit songs “Cinqüenta por cento’ (Lamartine Babo) and the samba “Você vai se arrepender” (Alberto Fadel, Germano Augusto and Kid Pepe). Upon meeting producer Alberto Quatrini Bianchi, she was invited to perform at his chain of casinos, scattered throughout the country.

Born in the neighborhood of Brás and raised by her godparents in Itapetininga, São Paulo, Camargo studied to become a teacher, but chose singing instead, starting her career on ‘Rádio Record’s amateur talent shows, at the age of 16, followed by her film debut on Cousas Nossas (1931).