Roberto Carlos Braga Moreira, better known as Roberto Carlos, is one of the most important Brazilian balladeers of all time, and throughout his career he has conquered the hearts of millions of fans around the world. He was born on April 19, 1941 and to date is the owner of a unique style that has established him in the artistic world.
More than 150 million records sold support a successful career with songs in Portuguese and Spanish.
These are some curiosities of his life: he began his career singing at the young age of nine… If you put all his gold and platinum discography on one side of the other, you can go around the Maracana stadium (the biggest soccer stadium in all of the world)… At the age of six he suffered an unfortunate accident when he was run over by a steam train for which he lost his right leg and since that day he has used a prosthesis below the knee… He is the only artist who released more than two albums per year, one in Portuguese and the other in Spanish, in addition to having the highest number of record sales, above The Beatles and Elvis Presley in all of Latin America… The soccer star, Roberto Carlos, bears that name in honor of the famous singer… He did one of the most successful sold outs in his history on May 24 and 25, 2007 in Miami, after not having performed a concert in 10 years in that city, the tickets sold out in 48 hours… He suffers from a Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that leads him to always wear the colors light blue, white and blue. Thus, blue became his favorite color… he is very superstitious. He considers August to be unlucky, for example, and that’s why he never shows up at concerts or makes records in that month. Also, he never signs contracts on a waning moon, he always goes in and out of the same door, and he avoids pronouncing words like hell, chance and evil, and even, if they are in his songs, he replaces them with others.
WOMEN WRITERS. sappho from Lesvos. Although bisexualism was common in ancient Greece and Rome, let’s remember the love affairs of Plato and other philosophers with beautiful young men or the popular saying about the great Julius Caesar who defined him as “the lover of all Roman women… and of all Romans.” », instead, Sappho will be for many a Greek who slept with women. And yes, it is true that she had women lovers, but also men, for example, the poet Alceo, his partner for a long time. However, even though it is known that she ardently loved some of her disciples, she also prepared them for a future heterosexual marriage as queens of her house who knew how to recite, dance, and play instruments.
He never set foot in Athens. Because its marbles, its democracy, the government of Pericles, unlike the rest of Greece, had women as the closest thing to nothing: prisoners of their home, ignorant, only useful to raise children and carry out their tasks of cooking and scrub…
Stripped of all prejudice and contrary to conventions and sexist precepts, in her poems she exalted her love for women without gag, confessed her pain and despair when one abandoned her. All this led to the fact that not only did Pope Gregory VII order her work to be burned, but also that she was a victim of censorship for a long time.
