Three-time Latin GRAMMY Award-winner Martin José Ferreira, better known as
Martinho da Vila, has become one of Brazil’s best-known samba artists over the
course of his fifty-plus-year career. Born on February 12, 1938, in Duas Barras,
Rio de Janeiro, the self-taught singer and multi-instrumentalist first made a
name for himself as a participant in the 1967 and 1968 editions of III Festival
da Record, where he competed with the songs "Menina Moça" and "Casa de Bamba"
respectively. The latter song went on to become an international hit, and was
included on Ferreira’s self-titled de...