Clara nunes biography
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Death of Clara Nunes
Clara Nunes in the early 70s. | |
| Time | April&#;2, ; 41 years ago&#;() |
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| Venue | São Vicente Clinic |
| Location | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro &#;Brazil |
| Cause | Halothane anaphylaxis |
| Outcome | An investigation by the Bahia Regional Medical Council (Cremeb) determined that there had been no medical error. |
| Burial | São João Batista Cemetery |
The death of Clara Nunes occurred on April 2, , and was caused by anaphylactic shock triggered by halothane at the São Vicente Clinic in Rio de Janeiro. Before her death, she spent 28 days in a coma with immediate brain death after suffering anaphylaxis during surgery to remove varicose veins from her legs on March 5 of that year.[1][2][3] There was considerable speculation regarding the cause of Clara's coma. The work of the doctors who attended her and her relationship with her husband, songwriter Paulo César Pinheiro, were thoroughly analyzed by the press and her fans
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Clara Nunes
Musical artist
Clara Nunes (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈklaɾɐˈnunis], August 12, &#; April 2, ) was a Brazilian samba and MPB singer, considered one of the greatest of her generation. She was the first female singer in Brazil to sell over , copies of a record,[1] with "Tristeza Pé No Chão"[2] and her achievements in the samba genre earned her the title of "Queen of Samba".[3]
She had an enormous success with samba songs written by composers such as Nelson Cavaquinho, Paulinho da Viola and Chico Buarque, in addition to songs devoted to orishas and Portela, her favorite samba school. Among her hits, recorded in 16 solo albums, are "Você passa, eu acho graça" (), "Ê baiana" (), "Conto de areia" (), "O mar serenou" (), "Coração leviano" (), "Na linha do mar" (), "Morena de Angola" (), and "Nação" (). At the peak of her career, Nunes would sell more than a million copies of each album she released.[1]
Nunes was also a res
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Clara Francisca Gonçalves Pinheiro (August 12, , Caetanópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil — April 2, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), best known as Clara Nunes, was one of the biggest female Brazilian singers and performers of samba music and MPB.
A researcher of Brazilian popular music, its rhythms and folklore, she has also traveled to many countries representing the Brazilian culture. A connoisseur of African music, dance, traditions, and religions, she converted to Candomblé and took Afro-Brazilian culture into her songs and costumes. She was one of the singers who recorded the most songs by the composers of Portela, her favorite samba school. She was also the first female Brazilian singer to sell more than one hundred thousand records, breaking a taboo according to which women did not sell records in Brazil. During her whole career she sold four million four hundred thousand records. She was considered by Rolling Stone magazine as the ninth greatest Brazilian voice and, by the same maga