Haroldo Barbosa (March 21, 1915 — September 6, 1979) was a Brazilian comedian, journalist, and composer.
[1][2] He was a childhood friend of Noel Rosa, Almirante, Braguinha, and Aracy de Almeida.
During his more than forty years of artistic career, he performed more than three hundred Portuguese versions of foreign songs.
[3] In the 1940s, while working at Rádio Nacional and presenting the program Um Milhão de Melodias, he wrote for newspaper A Noite.
He died at the age of 64, of cardiac arrest, as a result of esophageal cancer.