Augusto Calheiros

Biography

Augusto Calheiros (Murici, June 5, 1891 – Rio de Janeiro, January 11, 1956) was a Brazilian singer and composer. He began his artistic career in Recife in the mid-1920s. In 1927, as a member of the Pernambuco group Turunas da Mauriceia, he moved to Rio de Janeiro. The group's Rio de Janeiro debut took place at the Teatro Lírico, in a show sponsored by the newspaper Correio da Manhã, where Augusto Calheiros achieved enormous success due to his fine-tuned voice and distinctive performance style. According to press reports from the time, Calheiros spent many years of his life singing with only one lung, due to tuberculosis.

Known For

Maria Bonita

1937•Movie

Filmography