Tia Ciata (Hilária Batista de Almeida)
person · earth · Rio de Janeiro
A Bahian-born matriarch of Rio de Janeiro's Little Africa whose household is where samba is usually said to have taken its modern form. Born in 1854, she moved from Bahia to Rio in 1876 as part of the large southward movement of Afro-Brazilians from the northeast, and settled near Praça Onze in the Cidade Nova, renting a house on Rua Visconde de Itaúna that became a fixed point of the district. She was a mãe de santo — a priestess in Candomblé — a cook and a party host, and those roles were not separate from the music: her house offered a space where drumming, dancing and religious practice could take place with some protection from a police force that treated both capoeira and Afro-Brazilian religion as criminal. The musicians who gathered there include those later credited with "Pelo Telefone". Her significance is institutional rather than authorial. Samba did not need a composer so much as it needed somewhere it was safe to play, and the tias supplied it.
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- Sambainfluenced
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- Story
- A Bahian-born matriarch of Rio de Janeiro's Little Africa whose household is where samba is usually said to have taken its modern form. Born in 1854, she moved from Bahia to Rio in 1876 as part of the large southward movement of Afro-Brazilians from the northeast, and settled near Praça Onze in the Cidade Nova, renting a house on Rua Visconde de Itaúna that became a fixed point of the district. She was a mãe de santo — a priestess in Candomblé — a cook and a party host, and those roles were not separate from the music: her house offered a space where drumming, dancing and religious practice could take place with some protection from a police force that treated both capoeira and Afro-Brazilian religion as criminal. The musicians who gathered there include those later credited with "Pelo Telefone". Her significance is institutional rather than authorial. Samba did not need a composer so much as it needed somewhere it was safe to play, and the tias supplied it.
- Knowledge
- Samba
- Tia Ciata (Hilária Batista de Almeida)
- Connections
- Samba
- "Pelo Telefone" is registered
- Blues
- Rio de Janeiro
- Tia Ciata (Hilária Batista de Almeida)
- "Pelo Telefone" is registered
- Evidence
- Hilária Batista de Almeida (1854–1924) moved from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro in 1876 as part of a large northeastern migration, was a mãe de santo in Candomblé, and hosted at her house near Praça Onze the gatherings from which early samba emerged, offering musicians protection from a police force that treated Afro-Brazilian religion and capoeira as criminal. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary from reference and public-history accounts; none was opened, and no civil, parish or property record was consulted.
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