Berta Celeste Homem de Melo (March 21, 1902 – August 16, 1999) was a Brazilian pharmacist, writer and poet.
She was the only child of farming couple José Joaquim and Maria da Conceição Varela Homem de Melo.
She would often enter radio competitions, creating rhymes for various products, winning cash and merchandise, including for floor wax, toothpaste, medicine, and tea.
[2][3] In 1942 the singer Almirante (Henrique Foréis Domingues), a Rádio Tupi presenter in Rio de Janeiro, launched a competition to select Portuguese lyrics to the melody of Happy Birthday to you.
She received a doctorate in Literature and wrote a collection of poems that were later published in a book called Devaneios.