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Mineirão , officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto established in 1965 in Belo Horizonte, is the largest football stadium in... the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the second largest in the country, after Maracanã. It will be a host stadium in the 2014 FIFA World Cup to be held in the country. It is also a football venue of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. Mineirão construction project came before its opening in more than 25 years. In the 1940s, timid movements began, involving managers, entrepreneurs, athletes and journalists. The idea was to build on Belo Horizonte a field that followed the evolution of Minas Gerais' football. The top three teams in the state capital had their stadiums, but they were cramped, uncomfortable and no longer supported the demand of fans. Stadium Otacílio Negrão de Lima , of América; Antônio Carlos Stadium , of Atlético; and Juscelino Kubitschek Stadium , of Cruzeiro did not support more than 10,000 spectators.
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The Raimundo Sampaio stadium, usually known as Independência, is football stadium located in the Horto neighborhood in Belo Horizonte, Minas... Gerais, Brazil. It was built in 1950 for the FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil. Initially its capacity was for 30,000 people. After the reconstruction between 2010/2012, the capacity is for 25,000 people. It belonged to the defunct Sete de Setembro Futebol Clube, which is why the stadium is called Independence . Currently it is property of América Futebol Clube, but has been leased to the Minas Gerais state government for 20 years, as counter part for the injection of public resources to demolish the old stadium, and built the new one. Estádio Independência is the second most important stadium in Belo Horizonte, only behind Mineirão. Its formal name honors Raimundo Sampaio, a former chairman of Sete de Setembro. América and Atlético plays its home games in this stadium. The stadium construction started in 1947, in preparation for the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
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Mineirinho is the biggest indoor sporting arena of Brazil, located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The capacity is 25,000 people and it was built in... 1980. It is also located in the Sports Complex of Mineirão Stadium in the Pampulha, which will be one of the headquarters of the World Cup 2014. The nickname is due to being located close to Mineirão . It is used mainly for basketball and volleyball. The Arena is also used for nacional and international music concerts and others events.
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The Juscelino Kubitschek Arena, also called Vivo Arena, or Telemig Celular Arena , is the indoor multisport stadium from Minas Tênis Clube. It... is located in Lourdes neighborhood in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and is part of the Minas I complex, the Minas Tenis Clube's headquarters. The name is a homage to the former Belo Horizonte's mayor, former Minas Gerais governor and former Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek. The stadium occupies an area of more than 7.000 m². Its capacity can reach up to 5,000 spectators, varying in the type of event it is hosting.
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Daniella Cicarelli Lemos is a former TV show hostess for MTV Brazil and fashion model. She was engaged to Brazilian footballer Ronaldo for three... months in 2005. In September 2006, a video of Cicarelli having sex with her boyfriend on a beach in Tarifa, Spain was shot by paparazzo Miguel Temprano and broadcast on the TV show Dolce Vita on the Spanish station Telecinco. The video was spread around the internet, with Cicarelli was granted legal injunctions against YouTube and other websites, leading to several Brazilian ISPs blocking YouTube. In January 2007 after a legal decision, YouTube was blocked in Brazil for two days, resulting in 5.7 million users being blocked. This decision was criticized by internet watch groups. This happened when Cicarelli worked as a host on MTV Brazil, provoking a torrent of nearly 80,000 emails protesting against the blockade and her legal actions. Some people even went to the building of the TV station to protest. In 2007, YouTube won the case, based on the fact that there is no expectation of privacy on a public beach.
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Paulo Jr. is the bassist and the only remaining original member of the Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura. In the latter half of his career, he... has played 35" 5-string Zon basses, tuned flat. In a 1991 interview for the Under Siege concert video, he claims Max and Igor were so impressed by his bass that they asked him to join the band, even though he didn't know how to properly play the instrument. Sepultura, Under Siege, 1991 The All Blacks B.V.
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Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the heavy... metal band Sepultura, before forming Soulfly in the late 1990s. Cavalera was also involved in a short-lived side project, Nailbomb, and is currently performing with Soulfly and another project, Cavalera Conspiracy. His father, Graziano Cavalera, was an employee of the Italian Consulate in São Paulo and died at 40 years of age and is buried in Belo Horizonte; Max was only 9 when his father died. Max's family was in a state of financial crisis and family turbulence when he formed Sepultura with his younger brother Igor and Wagner Lamounier, later adding Paulo Jr. and Jairo Guedes after Lamounier left the band. In the early 1990s he relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. He did not begin to make "spiritual" music until after he quit Sepultura. His earlier lyrics for Soulfly were influenced by religion and spirituality, though he is very critical of religion. His later albums, starting with Dark Ages, began to incoporate lyrical themes of violence, warfare, anger, and hatred.
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Igor Graziano Cavalera is a Brazilian musician. He is best known as the former drummer for Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura. He, along with... older brother Max, were the founding members of the Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura. Igor is now the drummer for Cavalera Conspiracy. He has played in the bands Nailbomb and Strife, and guest drumming in "Brasileiro", a song by Titãs. As his hip-hop influences grew stronger he began to DJ. Cavalera is one half of DJ duo Mixhell, a project he founded with his wife Laima Leyton. Igor started playing drums at a very early age. When Sepultura was formed, Igor was the youngest member at the age of 13, his brother Max was 14 at the time. Sepultura was a big success and gave Igor an early start. On April 21, 1984, Igor played, for the first time, on a real drum kit, which was borrowed from Helinho of the band Overdose, that also played that night. After the band split with his brother Max in 1996 their relationship underwent a crisis. In recent times their relationship has improved, with Max stating in an interview that a reunion with Sepultura was possible.
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Célia Mara is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer who has lived since the 1990s in Vienna, Austria and since 2003 also partly in... Salvador, Bahia. She defines herself as "bastardista": violating race, gender and class structures; a hybrid; mostly women made, mestizo mixed, out of rules, illegitimate, from an impure race; or "nu Brazilian flavor", presenting a Latinized worldbeat - multicultural world music with strong Brazilian roots, singing in Portuguese, English, German, French and Spanish. Célia Mara is part of the femous movement - femous: platform for famous female culture. Célia Mara was born in Pedra Azul, Minas Gerais, a small town in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, one of today's poorest regions of the world. Politically, she grew up under a military regime. She began her musical career as a 14-year-old girl, as an autodidact on the guitar. Highly influenced by the revolutonary Tropicalismo, she started early to play songs from Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque but also from Mercedes Sosa and her own compositions on local events.
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Débora Lima Falabella is a Brazilian actress. Falabella started acting in 1998 on Rede Globo's teen telenovela Malhação, as... Antônia. She's also appeared in other Rede Globo telenovelas like Um Anjo Caiu do Céu, O Clone and Senhora do Destino. In cinema, she's acted in Brazilian movies like Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára, Dois Perdidos numa Noite Suja and A Dona da História. In the miniseries JK she played the role of Sarah Kubitschek, wife of Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek. In 2006, she was cast to the leading role in the telenovela Sinhá Moça. In 2007 he was one of the protagonists of the novel Duas Caras, who lived in the Júlia de Queiroz Barreto, a young filmmaker who falls for Evilásio Caó , a boy from lower class and black, resulting in the father's reaction, Paulo Barreto's lawyer . Beatriz Cristina played the villain in the novel Escrito nas Estrelas of TV Globo, and its presence in the plot, was negotiated by the author of the novel Elizabeth Jhin, who really wanted the actress as the villain of his story.
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Paulo Jr. is the bassist and the only remaining original member of the Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura. In the latter half of his career, he... has played 35" 5-string Zon basses, tuned flat. In a 1991 interview for the Under Siege concert video, he claims Max and Igor were so impressed by his bass that they asked him to join the band, even though he didn't know how to properly play the instrument. Sepultura, Under Siege, 1991 The All Blacks B.V.
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Samuel Rosa de Alvarenga is lead singer and guitarist of Brazilian rock band Skank. He has a psychology degree from Universidade Federal de Minas... Gerais. Samuel writes the music for most of the group's songs, with 80% of the lyrics by Chico Amaral. Other songwrting partners were Nando Reis, Arnaldo Antunes, and Lô Borges. Samuel is an avid football player and supports Cruzeiro.
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Fernanda Brandao is a Brazilian singer, dancer, recording artist and celebrity, based in Munich, Germany. She became famous under her stage name... Laava, then with Latin pop trio, Hot Banditoz. Early years Fernanda Brandao was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and grew up in Rio de Janeiro. By the age of four, she had danced at the Rio Carnival and sung to samba folklore hits. She came from an artistic family, with her mother having produced some successful Brazilian pop songs, and her aunt and uncle being well-known singers in Brazil, and she spent much of her childhood in recording studios. When she was nine, she moved to Hamburg, with her mother, whose partner was German, travelling between Germany and Brazil, ever since. Commercial success In Germany, she took lessons in jazz, modern dance, Hip hop, ballet and voice. Brandao, who speaks Portuguese, Spanish, German and English, left school early in 2001, so as to be able to concentrate solely on her music career.
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Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the heavy... metal band Sepultura, before forming Soulfly in the late 1990s. Cavalera was also involved in a short-lived side project, Nailbomb, and is currently performing with Soulfly and another project, Cavalera Conspiracy. His father, Graziano Cavalera, was an employee of the Italian Consulate in São Paulo and died at 40 years of age and is buried in Belo Horizonte; Max was only 9 when his father died. Max's family was in a state of financial crisis and family turbulence when he formed Sepultura with his younger brother Igor and Wagner Lamounier, later adding Paulo Jr. and Jairo Guedes after Lamounier left the band. In the early 1990s he relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. He did not begin to make "spiritual" music until after he quit Sepultura. His earlier lyrics for Soulfly were influenced by religion and spirituality, though he is very critical of religion. His later albums, starting with Dark Ages, began to incoporate lyrical themes of violence, warfare, anger, and hatred.
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Igor Graziano Cavalera is a Brazilian musician. He is best known as the former drummer for Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura. He, along with... older brother Max, were the founding members of the Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura. Igor is now the drummer for Cavalera Conspiracy. He has played in the bands Nailbomb and Strife, and guest drumming in "Brasileiro", a song by Titãs. As his hip-hop influences grew stronger he began to DJ. Cavalera is one half of DJ duo Mixhell, a project he founded with his wife Laima Leyton. Igor started playing drums at a very early age. When Sepultura was formed, Igor was the youngest member at the age of 13, his brother Max was 14 at the time. Sepultura was a big success and gave Igor an early start. On April 21, 1984, Igor played, for the first time, on a real drum kit, which was borrowed from Helinho of the band Overdose, that also played that night. After the band split with his brother Max in 1996 their relationship underwent a crisis. In recent times their relationship has improved, with Max stating in an interview that a reunion with Sepultura was possible.
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