Angela Maria Diniz Gonsalves (born December 5, 1949 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), best known by the stage name Angela Ro Ro, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist. She got the nickname Ro Ro in her adolescence, due to her signature low and hoarse voice, which would later show to conquer Brazil in the late '70s. At age 5, she got an accordion and at age 6, Ro Ro composed a guarânia with it; her first song. At age 8, she began studying classical piano, influenced by icons such as
Maysa,
Jacques Brel,
Ella Fitzgerald (and later
Janis Joplin), whom she would elect as her music…
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