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Wilson Simonal (Born February 26, 1939 in Rio de Janeiro, 25 June 2000) was a Brazilian singer.
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Simonal began his career during his Millitärzeit when he nachsang English songs and Calypso in bars or on boats. It was discovered Carlos Imperial, 1963 by the Brazilian composer and producer of him his first appearances in the TV drama OS Brotos Comandam enabled. In the same year, Simonals first album was released Balanco Zona Sul. In collaboration with Carlos Imperial emerged very successful Samba and bossanova numbers like Nem Vem que NAO Tem (inter alia to hear on the soundtrack to city of God), Mamae Passou Açúcar em Mim, Pais Tropical, Sa Marina and the piece Meu Limão, MEU Limoeiro (well known Brazilian song about a lemon tree), with which he also outside Brazil became known.
In 1966 and 1967 he was the star of the entertainment programme Show em SI Monal, where he style Pilantragem, a fusion of soul, jazz, Samba and Boogaloo, made popular. Also conducted he 1969 a choir with 15,000 people during the IV Festival Internacional da Canção in the sports arena Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, which is located in the vicinity of the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
1972, Simonals career was over. You accused him to have been, when two of his colleagues falsely of theft were reported to have been beaten up for evil an informant of the military dictatorship. Until 2003 he was acquitted posthumously by the accusations, after his widow, the lawyer Sandra Manzini CERQUEIRA, insight in the military files received and noted that Wilson Simonals name appeared nowhere in the informant lists.
Musically, you heard nothing more until 1994 by him, until the compilation A Bossa de Wilson Simonal was published.
In June 2000, he died of cirrhosis of the liver, which was the result of an ongoing since the eighties alcoholism. Simonals sons Wilson Simoninha and Max de Castro are now even well-known musicians in Brazil.
