Inezita Barroso

Who is Inezita Barroso?

Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima is a Brazilian folk singer and TV host who has also done some acting. She is noted for supporting or reviving songs from the caipira.

She became interested in music from an early point and after her marriage she managed to get the support needed to do so. By the 1950s she had had a few hits, but her fondness for traditional folk and rural music kept her from being "mainstream" in Brazilian music. Despite, or perhaps because of, that she gained a following in rural Brazil even though she was an urbanite herself.