Andrea de Andrade

In 2010 she won the "Rainha da bateria" (Queen of drums) of Mocidade and in 2011 led the parade of this school at the Rio de Janeiro carnival.

In 2012 Andrade left Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel and begin a new fulminate ascension in his career with the highest degree for a samba dancer: "madrinha" of a drums battery.

Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel has presented on 08.03.2011 at Rio Carnival a parade on theme "Parábola dos Divinos Semeadores"("Parable of Divine Planters")-Compositores:J. Giovanni, Zé Glória e Hugo Reis .

Also, the web sites G1 Globo,[3] EGO, Estadao Br, The Telegraph ,presented in their page description and images about this event.

One specific element of Mocidade battery is "paradinhas" which was introduced for the first time in history of samba parade in 1959 under the expert Master André.

Paradinha means the moment when the drummers stop playing for some time during which the singers (samba-enredo) continue the song by maintaining the same rhythm.

The drummers were led by "Rainha da batteria" (Queen of battery) Andrea de Andrade which present in this parade an ancient nymph.

[4] Fantasia of Andrea was composed by 80000 Swarovski crystal,700 pheasant feather into a mixture of white and pink colors, and was evaluate at 65000 BR R$ (approx.

On 04.07.2011 the Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel inaugurate the opening of a new facility of training for samba repetition, a superblock with capacity for 10 000 revelers.

The Imperio de Casa Verde was telling the history of the science of optics using big floats and specific costumes.

Comissão de frente was depicted the theme of "Alquimistas" (Alchemist),scholars who begin the optics studies for the first time in history of science.

Samba-enredo "Quem canta seus males espanta – pra todo mal, a cura" (The songs, scaring the evil, heal the body).The north carioca samba school show on avenida 5 floats, 27 wards,3000 of components and a battery of 280 of drummers depicting vary domain of history of medicine.

The fantasia of Andrea de Andrade was inspired by Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, estimated at 80000 R$ (38000 usd)[15] was created by red,orange and golden Swarovski and 700 of pheasant feathers.

Andrea de Andrade, Madrinha de Imperio de Casa Verde, on São Paulo Carnival, Brazil, 2013