Editing Carmen Miranda (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Travessa do Comércio, Rio.jpg|thumb|alt=Narrow, cobbled street|Travessa do Comércio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Miranda lived at number 13 when she was young.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rioecultura.com.br/coluna_patrimonio/coluna_patrimonio.asp?patrim_cod=26 |title=Travessa do Comércio – Um passeio pelo Rio Colonial |access-date=3 February 2015 |date=2 July 2010 |language=pt |author=Leonardo Ladeira |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203080204/http://www.rioecultura.com.br/coluna_patrimonio/coluna_patrimonio.asp?patrim_cod=26 |archive-date=3 February 2015}}</ref>]]
Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha in 1909 in Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada, a village in the northern [[Portugal|Portuguese]] municipality of [[Marco de Canaveses Municipality|Marco de Canaveses]].{{sfn|McGowan|Pessanha|1997|p=32}} She was the second daughter of José Maria Pinto da Cunha (17 February 1887&nbsp;– 21 June 1938) and Maria Emília Miranda (10 March 1886, [[Rio de Janeiro]] – 9 November 1971).{{sfn|Tompkins|Foster|2001|p=192}}

The family's [[Portuguese Brazilian|emigration to Brazil]] was already scheduled; however, upon finding herself pregnant, Carmen Miranda's mother preferred to wait for her daughter's birth.<ref name="Cravo">{{cite web|title=Biografia|url=http://www.dicionariompb.com.br/carmen-miranda/biografia|access-date=26 September 2023|archive-date=5 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105033246/http://www.dicionariompb.com.br/carmen-miranda/biografia|url-status=dead}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --> no [[Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira]].</ref> In 1909, her father emigrated to Brazil<ref name="century">{{cite journal|title=The century of the Brazilian Bombshell|journal=It's Time for Brazil in Singapore|publisher=Sun Media|location=Singapore|page=63}}</ref> and settled in Rio de Janeiro, where he opened a barber shop. Her mother followed in 1910 with their daughters, Olinda (1907–1931) and Carmen, who was less than a year old.<ref name="Cravo" /><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-01|language=pt-BR|title=Carmen Miranda completaria 100 anos nesta segunda|url=https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/arte-e-cultura/carmen-miranda-completaria-100-anos-nesta-segunda,aa0884ce6888a310VgnCLD200000bbcceb0aRCRD.html|website=Terra}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Although Carmen never returned to Portugal, she retained her Portuguese nationality.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dn.pt/gente/perfis/carmen-miranda-1141949.html | title=Carmen Miranda }}</ref> In Brazil, her parents had four more children: [[Amaro da Cunha|Amaro]] (1912–1988), [[Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho|Cecilia]] (1913–2011), [[Aurora Miranda|Aurora]] (1915–2005) and Óscar (born 1916).{{sfn|Tompkins|Foster|2001|p=192}}

She was [[Christian name|christened]] Carmen by her father because of his love for [[Bizet]]'s ''[[Carmen]]''. This passion for opera influenced his children, and Miranda's love for singing and dancing, at an early age.<ref name="century"/> She was educated at the Convent of [[Saint Therese of Lisieux]]. Her father did not approve of Miranda's plans to enter show business; her mother supported her, despite being beaten when her father discovered that his daughter had auditioned for a radio show (she had sung at parties and festivals in Rio). Miranda's older sister, Olinda, developed [[tuberculosis]] and was sent to Portugal for treatment; the singer worked in a tie shop at age 14 to help pay her sister's medical bills. She then worked in a boutique (where she learned to make hats) and opened a successful hat business.