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Dolores Duran
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Dolores Duran, artistic name of Adiléia Silva da Rocha, was born in Rio de Janeiro in June 7, 1930. She made her public singing debut at age 10 on the radio. At age 16 she came up with the stage name Dolores Duran and became a crooner, working mainly at the 1950s nostalgic nightclubs in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. As a singer and composer, Duran was a great exponent of the Samba-Canção samba cancao genre, which emerged in the 1930s. In addition to her, Maysa Matarazzo, Nora Ney, Dalva de Oliveira and Angela Maria stood out in this genre. The samba-canção samba cancao genre can be compared to the bolero due to the exaltation of romantic love or the suffering caused by an unfulfilled love. Samba-canção preceded the Bossa Nova movement, which emerged at the end of the 1950s. But the latter, an amalgamation of North American jazz with samba from Rio de Janeiro, represented refinement and greater lightness in melodies and interpretations, that replaced personal drama and melancholy melodies. Even without fluency in other languages, Dolores Duran did so well in her performances that, when attending a show at the Baccarat nightclub located at Rio’s Beco das Garrafas alley in Duvivier Street (later the birth location of Bossa Nova genre), the American singer Ella Fitzgerald declared that she had seen the best version of "My Funny Valentine ", a 1937 Richard Rodgers classic in her native United States performed by 600 artists over the years. A Pioneer For rese
