Dirce Grandino de Oliveira (April 7, 1922 – June 18, 1999), known as Dircinha Batista, was a Brazilian actress and singer.
Nássara had an unfinished march, then finished it and Dircinha recorded his first big hit, "Periquitinho Verde", which exploded at Carnaval the following year.
[3] In 1938 she worked in the films "Futebol em Família", "Bombonzinho" and "Banana da Terra", and in Belo Horizonte won a "best singer" award from Governor Benedito Valadares.
She recorded "Tirolesa", one of the great hits of the 1939 Carnival, and won a contest promoted by the newspaper O Globo to choose the favorite singer of the federal capital.
In the same year she had other hits including "Moleque Teimoso", "Era Só o Que Lackava", "Mamãe, Eu Vi um Touro".
Her films in this period included "Carnaval em Caxias" (1954}, "Guerra ao Samba" (1955), "Tira a Mão Dá" and "Depois Eu Conto" (both 1956), "Metido a Bacana" (1957), " É de Chuá" (1958) and "Mulheres à Vista" (1959).
Isolated by her mother and never having married, Dircinha closed herself off from the world in 1974 and would remain secluded in her apartment in Copacabana, in the care of her sister Linda.