Carmen Miranda

Carmen studied at the Santa Teresa convent school, on the streets of Lapa, number 24. Had his first job at age 14 in a tie shop, and then a headgear. Count that was dismissed by spending time singing, but his biographer Ruy Castro says she sang through the influence of his older sister, Olinda, and thus attracted customers .. At this time, her family left the Lapa and had resided in a townhouse in the Lane of Commerce, number 13. In 1925, Olinda, stricken with tuberculosis, he returned to Portugal for treatment, where he remained until his death in 1931. To supplement the family income, his mother began managing a pension home that served meals to employees trade.