Carnival is coming, it’s a very popular party all over the world, celebrated in different ways. Today I want to talk about the story of a woman who has forever changed the carnival of her country, Brazil.
Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga, or as she’s better known Chiquinha Gonzaga, was a Brazilian composer, pianist and the first woman conductor of Brazil. One of the first pianist of choro (an instrumental popular music genre in Brazil), but she is famous for being the author of the first carnival march.
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