Biography
Ellen de Lima, an awarded singer, attained widespread popularity throughout the 1950s while sustaining performances and recordings into the 1990s. After relocating to Rio at age two, she launched her career in 1950 via a novice showcase at Rádio Mayrink Veiga. The station engaged her four years later for engagements in both Rio and São Paulo. Among Columbia’s earliest signings, she issued her debut album in 1954, pairing the samba-canção “Até Você” (Armando Nunes) with the fox “Melancolia” (Allain Romans, version by Capitão Furtado). Her first LP, Só Ellen, followed in 1957 and featured the hit “Vício” (Fernando César). At the height of activity during this era, she joined Rádio Nacional that same year. She further appeared on television programs and in numerous nightclubs, undertook repeated tours of Portugal that included presentations at the Cassino Estoril, and entered the Cantoras do Rádio in 1988. The group subsequently performed across Brazil’s principal cities and issued As Eternas Cantoras Do Rádio (1991) together with two additional CDs; on the series’ third volume she joined Gilberto Gil for a rendition of his “Estrela.”
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