Mário Reis

M+írio Reis was one of the best interpreters of Brazilian popular music. Active and successful from 1928 to 1936, he helped popularize the (at the time) unknown and genial composers of the Carioca hills throughout Brazil, with his 161 interpretations recorded on 82 78 rpms. From a middle-class family, he was already a viol+úo student when he knew Sinh+¦ (the King of Samba). It was 1924, on a Carnaval day at the Clube dos Zuavos, Lapa, Rio. Sinh+¦ was a fugitive at the time because of his composition "Fala Baixo," satirizing Brazil's President Artur Bernardes. A couple of yea...