João Pedro

João Pedro may refer to:

Deborah Secco

Deborah Fialho Secco (born November 26, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian actress.

Biography

Secco was born into a middle-class family, daughter of Sílvia Regina Fialho, a homemaker, and Ricardo Secco, a mathematics teacher. She has two siblings, Ricardo and Bárbara.

Career

At 8 years old she debuted in TV advertising and at age 10, appeared in her first TV show Brincando de Era uma Vez. At age 11, she starred in her first soap opera, Mico Preto by Rede Globo.

In 1999, she appeared in the novela Suave Veneno, as 'WAG' Marina. In August of that year, she also posed for the first time for the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine, in the magazine's 24th anniversary edition.

In 2000, she played her first villain in a novela, as the rebel Iris in Laços de Família. In 2001, she gained her first protagonist role in a novela, as the sweet Cecília, in A Padroeira.

In 2002, she played another TV villain - the comical and clumsy vampire Lara, in the novela O Beijo do Vampiro. That year, it was voted the most beloved character in a novela by viewers. Due to the great sensual appeal and prominence in the novela and the success of Lara, Secco aapeared on the cover of Playboy for the 27th birthday edition of the magazine in August that year.

Pedro

Pedro (alternate archaic spelling Pêro) is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter.

The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro".

The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πετρα" meaning "stone, rock".

The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone".

Pedro may refer to:

Notable people named Pedro

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock n' roll, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the more than sixty albums he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers.

Zappa was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; later switching to electric guitar. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical.