Aurora Miranda
December 25th, 2005 by Andre Soares
Obit: Aurora Miranda, Carmen’s sister, died of natural causes on Wed.. Dec. 21, in Rio de Janeiro. Born in Rio on April 20, 1915, Aurora started her show business career in the late 1920s, singing on the radio and with her sister Carmen at Rio’s then prestigious Cassino da Urca. Her biggest hit came out in 1934, André Filho’s "Cidade Maravilhosa" (Wonderful City), which became Rio’s official anthem in 1960. Her film debut took place in 1935, singing "Cidade Maravilhosa" in Alô, alô, Brasil / Hello, Hello, Brazil (which also featured Carmen), a series of musical sketches directed by Wallace Downey, João de Barro, and Alberto Ribeiro. She also appeared with Carmen in several other Brazilian musicals, including Downey’s Estudantes (1935) and Ruy Costa’s Banana-da-Terra (1939). After Carmen Miranda, Aurora was the busiest recording artist in Brazil during the ’30s.
In the 1940s, she sang on radio in the United States, and appeared onstage at the Roxy and the Copacabana in New York, and in films, in Brazil (1944), Phantom Lady (1944), and the Walt Disney mix of live action and animation, The Three Caballeros (1945). Miranda’s last film appearance was in Carlos Diegues’s Dias Melhores Virão / Better Days Ahead (1989), starring Marília Pêra and Brazilian pop singer Rita Lee. Aurora Miranda was 90.
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Grouxo wrote. . .
Aurora teve luz própria. Apesar de ter sido ofuscada pelo estrelato internacional de Carmen Miranda, ela parecia ter consciÁªncia de que havia deixado a sua marca. Ela ficará eternizada como a irmã também cantora de Carmen. Ao longo dos Áºltimos 50 anos, Aurora sempre falou publicamente sobre a Carmen com alegria e carinho.