At nine, she already admired the modernist poet Mário de Andrade, who lived next door to her house on Rua Lopes Chaves in Barra Funda, São Paulo, whom she hoped to spend every day while playing rollerblading.

She developed a taste for country music from an early age, but she faced harsh prejudices, because at the time singing and playing the viola was not an activity for women.

Inezita studied Librarianship, as she had a true love of books In the 40s, she married a man from Pernambuco and began her career singing folk songs collected by Mário de Andrade, at Rádio Clube do Recife.

She made her debut as an actress in the film "Ângela", by Tom Payne and Abílio Pereira de Almeida, in 1950, by Companhia Vera Cruz.

Still in 1951, she recorded her first album, performing "Funeral de um Rei Nagô", by Hekel Tavares and Murilo Araújo, and also "Curupira", by Waldemar Henrique.

In the same year, she participated as an actress and singer in the film "Carnaval em Lá Maior", by Adhemar Gonzaga, who represented Brazil at the Punta Del Este Festival in Uruguay.

Also in 1955, she received the Saci Awards, as best actress, and Roquette Pinto, as best singer of Popular Music, with the album "Vamos Falar de Brasil".

In 1985, she was honored by the Escola de Samba Oba-Oba, from Barueri, in São Paulo, which sang her life and work in a carnival plot.

In 1996, she recorded the CD "Voz e Viola" with guitar player Roberto Corrêa, in which she performed, among others, "Flor do Cafezal", by Luiz Carlos Paraná, "Perfil de São Paulo", by Bezerra de Menezes, "Tamba- tajá", by Waldemar Henrique, "Chalana", by Mário Zan and Arlindo Pinto and "Romaria", by Renato Teixeira.

Also with Roberto Correia, she recorded the CD "Caipira de Fato", in 1997, interpreting, among others, "A Coisa Tá Feia" and "A Viola eo Violeiro", by Tião Carreiro and Lourival dos Santos, "Siriema", by Mário Zan and Nhô Pai and "Adeus Campina da Serra", by Cornélio Pires and Raul Torres.

[1] Inezita was admitted into Hospital Sírio-Libanês, in São Paulo, at February 19, 2015, due to respiratory failure, and died at March 8, just four days after her 90th anniversary.