Tia Surica

Having devoted her very existence towards the Portela samba college, Tia Surica, pastora from the Velha Guarda da Portela, is constantly on the commemorate the tradition of her college by regularly advertising a roda de samba (samba get-together) where in fact the biggest artists from the genre commemorate this music. Alongside her single discography, Tia Surica also offers documented as a particular visitor of Marisa Monte, Zeca Pagodinho, Zélia Ducan, Alcione, Beth Carvalho, and Paulinho da Viola. Created to a family group deeply associated with Portela, Iranette Ferreira Barcellos, later on referred to as Tia Surica, paraded for the very first time within the children’s wing from the baianas in 1944, at age group four. In 1957, she documented the LP A Vitoriosa Escola de Samba da Portela. Within the Carnaval of 1966, Surica was the puxadora (the state interpreter from the samba-enredo selected from the samba college for the annual parade) from the Portela, performing the only real samba-enredo compiled by Paulinho da Viola for Portela, “Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias.” Since 1980, Tia Surica is really a pastora from the Velha Guarda da Portela and documented “Velha Guarda da Portela/Grandes Sambistas” in 1986 (reissued on Compact disc as Doce Recordação). She also was praised on her behalf subsequent functions Homenagem a Paulo da Portela (1988) and Tudo Azul (made by Marisa Monte in 1999).