Waldik Soriano

Waldick Soriano was very popular in an extremely bad-tasting formula called cafona in Brazil, which later would continue as the brega style. A synthesis of Bienvenido Granda, Anísio Silva, Nelson Gonçalves, Orlando Dias, and others, he became inspired by the film Durango Kid, and began dressing in cowboy outfits, forging his own style. Having recorded 83 albums, he also acted in the films Paixão de um Homem (after his biggest hit, a homonymous bolero) in 1972 and O Poderoso Garanhão in 1973. He worked in the Bahian hinterlands until he was 25 years old as a truck driver, man...