Eurípedes Waldick Soriano (May 13, 1933, Caetité

Caetité

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 – September 4, 2008, Rio de Janeiro

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) was a Brazil

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ian singer–songwriter

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, best known as a composer and singer of songs in the brega

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 style.

Biography

Soriano was born in Bahia

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, where he lived and worked as a truck driver

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, prospector

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, and in manual labor until he was 25. He moved to São Paulo

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 in 1959, where he began working at Rádio Nacional

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. His first album was issued in 1960, and his style of dramatic, sentimental songs became popular throughout Brazil. He went on to record dozens of albums and score many hits in his native country.

In 2005, Soriano was depicted in a documentary

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 directed by Patrícia Pillar

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. It was titled Waldick - Sempre No Meu Coração (which means, in Portuguese

Portuguese language

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, Waldick - Always In My Heart).

Soriano died of prostate cancer

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on September 4, 2008, at the age of 75.

Discography

Album	Label	Year
Quem és tu?/Só você	Chantecler	1960
Ninguém é de ninguém	Chantecler	1960
Dona do meu coração/Mais uma desventura	Chantecler	1961
Perdão pela minha dor/Amor de Vênus	Chantecler	1961
Sede de amor/Renúncia	Chantecler	1961
Waldick Soriano	Chantecler	1961
Fujo de ti/Tortura de amor	Chantecler	1962
Ciúmes/Desunião	Chantecler	1962
Homenagem a Recife/Amor numa serenata	Sertanejo	1962
Cantor apaixonado	Chantecler	1962
Quem é você?/Vestida de branco	Chantecler	1963
Foi Deus/Errei Senhor	Chantecler	1963
Pobre do pobre/Se eu morresse amanhã	Chantecler	1963
Motivos banais/É melhor eu ir embora	Chantecler	1963
A justiça de Deus/Tu és meu mundo	Chantecler	1963
Manaus, meu paraíso/Pisa no calo dele	Sertanejo	1963
Enfim você voltou/Pensei que estava sonhando	Chantecler	1964
Eu vou ao casamento dela/A maior injustiça do mundo	Chantecler	1964
O elegante Waldick Soriano	Chantecler	1964
Como você mudou pra mim	Chantecler	1965
Waldick sempre Waldick	Copacabana	1967
Boleros para ouvir, amar e sonhar	Copacabana	1967
Waldick	Continental	1968
No coração do povo	Continental	1970
Eu também sou gente	RCA	1972
Ele também precisa de carinho	RCA	1972
Segue o teu caminho	RCA	1974
Quero ser teu escravo	RCA	1978

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