Mário Pinheiro

Mário Pinheiro recorded more albums than any other singer in his time, from 1902 to 1919. Together with Cadete, Baiano, Nozinho, and Eduardo das Neves, Pinheiro formed the group of the first professionals of the recording business in Brazil. He performed (also as an opera bass) in the U.S. and Italy (in the Alla Scalla theater, Milano). Of humble origins, Pinheiro escaped from home at eight. He debuted his artistic career as a clown in a sordid circus of Piedade (a Rio working-class suburb), being booed. He became a singer recording exclusively for Fred Figner's Casa Edison....