Linda Batista

Linda Batista, born Florinda Grandino de Oliveira (June 14, 1919 – April 18, 1988[1]) was a Brazilian popular musician.

By 1937 she had been named Brazil's Rainha do Rádio [pt] in a contest voted on by listeners, a title first held by Carmen Miranda.

She returned to Rio de Janeiro in 1939 and was hired at the Cassino da Urca, singing with the Kolman Orchestra.

Batista toured throughout Brazil in the early and mid-1940s, scoring many nationwide hits such as "Tudo é Brasil" (1941), "Batuque No Morro" (1941), "Clube Dos Barrigudos" (1944), "No Boteco Do José" (1946), "Enlouqueci" (1948), "Nega Maluca" (1950), and "Vingança" (1951).

She appeared in a variety show with Carlos Machado's orchestra at his Rio nightclub Night and Day in 1960, and retired from active performance that year.