Dolores Duran

Dolores Duran, artistic name of Adiléia Silva da Rocha, was born in Rio de Janeiro in June 7, 1930. She made her public singing debut at age 10 on the radio. At age 16 she came up with the stage name Dolores Duran and became a crooner, working mainly at the 1950s nostalgic nightclubs in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. As a singer and composer, Duran was a great exponent of the Samba-Canção samba cancao genre, which emerged in the 1930s.