Dircinha Batista

Dircinha Batista was an enormously successful singer. In over 40 years of career, she recorded more than 300 78 rpm albums, with many big hits, especially with marchinhas for Carnival. She was also the first Queen of Radio and worked in 16 films. A child prodigy, Dircinha Batista began to perform in festivals at age six. The daughter of the ventriloquist and humorist Batista Júnior, Dircinha participated in his shows in Rio and São Paulo since that year. In 1930, at eight, she recorded her first album, for Columbia, with compositions by Batista Júnior, "Borboleta Azul" and "Di...