Flávio Cavalcanti

Flávio Cavalcanti
Born
Flávio Antônio Barbosa Nogueira Cavalcanti

(1923-01-15)15 January 1923
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died26 May 1986(1986-05-26) (aged 63)
São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation(s)Television presenter · journalist · songwriter · music critic
Years active1945–1986

Flávio Antônio Barbosa Nogueira Cavalcanti (15 January 1923 — 26 May 1986) was a Brazilian radio and television presenter, journalist, songwriter and music critic. One of the most famous and controversial Brazilian media personalities, he was successful in hosting several radio and television programs in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Programa Flávio Cavalcanti, Um Instante, Maestro! and A Grande Chance. During his life he was considered Silvio Santos' biggest rival.

Pedro Alexandre Sanches, on the Brazilian culture website Farofafá, said that Cavalcanti was the TV presenter who represented the status quo par excellence, a role that in the following decades would be inherited by eternally youthful people like Fausto Silva, Gugu Liberato, Luciano Huck, etc. Publicly considered a reactionary and much more controversial than his successors, Flavio had a touch of the anti-Huck, as he came from journalism and not advertising, did not consider running for public office, did not live with a perpetual smile on his face and confronted the military in power after having supported the coup d'état carried out by them in 1964.

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