Background
She began to participate his father"s shows in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo from 1928.
She began to participate his father"s shows in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo from 1928.
Dircinha Batista was a singer of great success. In more than forty year career, she recorded over three hundred discs at 78 rpm, with many big hits, especially carnival songs. She worked in sixteen Brazilian movies, was a child prodigy.
Dircinha began performing at festivals at six years of age.
She became Radio Corporation of America Victor"s sales champions over the years 40, 50. In the 60s even at the height of his career Dircinha already struggled with depression and used to be hospitalized in clinics and sanatoriums.
At 13, Dircinha made the film Hello, Hello Brazil! directed by Wallace Downey and the following year in Hello, Hello, Carnival! produced by Adhemar Gonzaga, another great success at the time of chanchadas. The career of the singer "took off" after that Francisco Alves presented in his program on Radio Cajuti as "the girl who had a bird"s throat." In 1948 was elected "Queen Radio"s".
Surrounded by his mother and without ever having been married, Dircinha locked himself to the world in 1974, after the death of Dona Neném, thereafter she remained secluded in his apartment in Copacabana to Linda sister"s care.
In recent years, she found himself virtually isolated from the world, interned in the Centro Gerontológico Mercedes Miranda in Botafogo.