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Marlui Miranda's family has always had a relationship of pleasure with music. Her mother, without ever having studied or even played the guitar, was the one who first tuned the instrument that Marlui had received. At this time the family still lived in Fortaleza, where Marlui was born in 1949. When she was 5 years old, they moved to Rio de Janeiro, from where her father, an engineer, decided to take on the challenge of helping to build Brasília. It was 1959. Marlui began studying guitar in high school, amidst the cultural effervescence. Already at the Faculty of Architecture, she began attending meetings that brought names like Jacob do Bandolim and Victor Assis Brasil to Brasília. Instrumental music awakened Marlui's taste for composition. The singing was hidden by shyness. Despite this, in 68 she won 1st prize as a performer and composer at the Student Festival of the University of Brasília. Marlui left university and went to Rio willing to make a living from music. She started singi