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Early on, I discovered my passion for the arts in drawing, writing poetry, and singing. In the 1980\u2019s one of one of my songs titled \u201cTic-Tic Nervoso\u201d became a great hit, and played on nearly every Brazilian radio Station, as well as several TV shows, soap operas, and even a Chevrolet commercial in the United States.<\/p>\n
After I graduated in Art and Visual Communication at the FAAP University, I was hired as an \u201cadvertising graphic designer\u201d, where I worked as a layout man and illustrator in developing advertising and publicity campaigns for a wide-range of companies, including Sears Roebuck. In addition to marketing work, I was commissioned to draw story-boards for television advertising.<\/p>\n
After having worked on TV ads, I worked a professional freelance actor in commercials, on stage, and in job training videos Furthermore I have acted in the theater, soap operas, videos and movies for more than 25 years. I have trained with the best Brazilian directors including Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and Hector Babenco (\u201cCarandiru\u201d) \u2013 which was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Film in 2004. In addition to working on the film crew for \u201cCarandriru\u201d I also played a part in the film.<\/p>\n
I have worked as free-lance illustrator, writer, and designer. I helped to integrate a team of artists for the construction of a diorama of Latin America \u2013 a permanent exhibition at the Memorial of the America Latina \u2013 in Sao Paulo, where my sculptures and paintings are also displayed.<\/p>\n
In 1993, I was hired by HGN Animation company to draw for Disney\u2019s Aladin television series in Brazil. I am the author of published children\u2019s books in Portuguese, and I\u2019m currently working to develop my stories and illustrations for an English readership.<\/p>\n
Also I am the author and illustrator of many children\u2019s books, published in Brazil by Paulinas Publishing Company.<\/p>\n
Currently, I have taken my expertise in acting, teaching and the arts to help me produce, write, direct, and edit my videos about my songs and tales \u2013 many of which I\u2019ve published on YouTube<\/em> and other media outlets.<\/p>\n My life\u2019s work is in the arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early on, I discovered my passion for the arts in drawing, writing poetry, and singing. In the 1980\u2019s one of one of my songs titled \u201cTic-Tic Nervoso\u201d became a great hit, and played on nearly every Brazilian radio Station, as well as several TV shows, soap operas, and even a Chevrolet commercial in the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcosserra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcosserra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcosserra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcosserra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcosserra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcosserra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/marcosserra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcosserra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}