Targino Gondim
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Born
7 October 1972
Targino Alves Gondim Filho
7 October 1972
Salgueiro, Brazil
Occupations
- Singer
- songwriter
- politician
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Targino Alves Gondim Filho (born 7 October 1972) is a Brazilian musician, singer, songwriter and politician, famous in the North and Northeast of the country for June, forró, baião and other songs of the genre.[1]
Having been named best regional singer in 2010, his song "Esperando na Janela" won him a Latin Grammy in 2001 and was the most performed in Brazil in 2004. Although he was born in Pernambuco, he lived in Bahia as a child, where he tried his hand at politics. When he completed twenty years of his career, in 2015, he held a commemorative show in Salvador where, in addition to traditional forró, he played reggae and Axé.[2]