# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlos-lyra
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:23:23.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlos-lyra"
name: "Carlos Lyra"
slug: "carlos-lyra"
description: "Carlos Eduardo Lyra Barbosa was a Brazilian singer, and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música popular brasileira classics. He has also worked as a writer, with notable contributions to musical films such as Para Viver um Grande Amor and Intimidade. He and Antônio Carlos Jobim were the first two music composers, together with lyricists Vinicius de Moraes and Ronaldo Boscoli, to be recorded by João Gilberto on his first LP entitled Chega de Saudade (1959), which is referred to as the first generation of Bossa Nova."
tagline: "Brazilian singer (1933–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carlos_Lyra.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1933-05-11"
deathDate: "2023-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.18664933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0529206/"
    handle:    "nm0529206"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://carloslyra.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "كارلوس ليرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A9"
    title: "カルロス・リラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81"
    title: "Лира, Карлос"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%9B%D1%96%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Карлус Ліра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carlos_Lyra"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2674d9a0-7647-4220-8c10-6d8d0c9677d9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q567872"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1068936"
    title: "Carlos Lyra"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump