Adoniran Barbosa / Nair Bello

Adoniran Barbosa whose 'Trem das Onze' was his most enduring hit. Here he was 76 years old and ready to board a metropolitan train in Sao Paulo in the late 1970s. Adoniran would die on 23rd November 1982 having reached the age of 70 years. 

Adoniran as he appeared in Ferenc Feket's 'Pensão da dona Stela', in 1956.

Adoniran was born João Rubinato in Valinhos-SP, on 6 August 1912. Here's when he worked at Radio Record de São Paulo. 

Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, 1952. 

Adoniran Barbosa (54) poses for a photo for Manchete, 20 March 1965, on Jaçanã railway station. 

'Manchete', 20 March 1965. 

Adoniran at Largo São Bento, in 1978.

Nair Bello is a typical example of someone who was born in São Paulo from a middle-classe background who made the grade first working as a speaker at Radio Excelsior, then moving on to Radio Record, the most popular Paulista broadcaster and then reaching for the stars... 

Interview given to Intervalo magazine in September 1963.