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Sergio Pinheiro Lopes (São Paulo, 1953) is a Brazilian writer, translator, composer and entrepreneur.

Sergio wrote four books: Cabe Outra Vida na Vida (bilingual edition Portuguese/English), Olavobrás, 2003; Fogo Paulista, Olavobrás, 2004; Peneira do Tempo, Edições A Pulga, 2007 and O Poemês, Edições A Pulga, 2007. The first introduced by Ivan Lessa and prefaced by Paulo Bomfim, the second introduced by Raul Fiker and prefaced by André Nigri and the third prefaced by Cilaine Alves Cunha, professor of Brazilian Literature at the University of São Paulo - USP. He also wrote for the magazine Salada Paulista, besides working as an English translator and interpreter for several institutions and companies, having translated into English a book on public education in Brazil commissioned by UNICEF, among others.

As a composer Sergio wrote around fifty songs, in partnerships with Cláudio Carina, Carlos Takaoka and Daniel Schafram. One of his first songs with Cláudio and Takaoka, "Documentário", competed in the Brazilian Music Festival of TV Cultura in 1981, finishing in fourth. It was sung by Rosa Maria who, afterwards, recorded it in more than one CD.

He is the second son of the jurisprudent Mauro Brandão Lopes, author of several books in his field of expertise, and of Maria Júlia Pinheiro Lopes. Sergio belongs to a dynasty of writers initiated by his great-grandfather, the writer and grammarian Julio Ribeiro, the patron of the chair number 24 of Academia Brasileira de Letras and the creator of the flag of the State of São Paulo. He is a nephew of the writers Elsie Lessa, Orígenes Lessa (a member of ABL), and Ivan Pedro de Martins, a cousin (in the first degree) of the writer and journalist Ivan Lessa, of his daughter, the English writer Juliana Foster, of the folklorist, writer, composer and performer Cornélio Pires, and of the poet, folklorist, philologist, essayist and member of ABL, Amadeu Amaral.

His ascendants include Brás Cubas, the founder of the city of Santos and twice governor of the Captaincy of São Vicente in Brazil.


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