Glória Maria Matta da Silva (15 August 1949 – 2 February 2023) was a Brazilian journalist, reporter, and television host.

With a career that spanned since the 1960s, she is widely considered the first television reporter and TV host of African descent to achieve national success in Brazil.

Glória Maria grew up in a low-income household in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro; her father worked as a tailor and her mother as a housewife.

[citation needed] She accumulated more than ten complete passports throughout her life and interviewed several celebrities, such as Michael Jackson,[3] Madonna,[4] and Freddie Mercury.

[citation needed] She spent time in India volunteering to help care for and feed children and beggars in the country's poorest cities.