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Estrela Leminski

Brazilian writer and poet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ10276606 ↗
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Estrela Ruiz Leminski (Curitiba, 1981) is a Brazilian writer and songwriter, daughter of poets Paulo Leminski and Alice Ruiz.

She graduated in Music Paraná School of Arts, specialized in Música Popular Brasileira and has a master's degree on Music and Musicology in Valladolid (Spain).

In 2014, she released the project Leminskanções, which revisits her father's songwriter side; according to her, he is mostly regarded as a poet.

Partnership with Téo Ruiz

Leminski formed a duo with her husband Téo Ruiz named Estrela Leminski e Téo Ruiz. With him, she released three albums.

In 2017, they released the album Tudo Que Não Quero Falar Sobre Amor, produced by several people including Guilherme Kastrup, Dante Ozzetti, Rodrigo Lemos, Marcelo Fruet, Fred Teixeira, John Ulhoa (Pato Fu) and Pupillo (Nação Zumbi). The project involved, in total, over 100 people and contains a 12 songs. All of them received videos and were released one by one starting in April of that year. The "Novela das Seis" video starred Ruiz's sister, Guta Ruiz. The video for "Gostável" was debuted at Billboard Brasil's website.

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“Estrela Leminski” enters the record as brazilian writer and poet. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Estrela, Leminski and Brazilian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10276606. VIAF identifies the subject as 4441150325534510090008. The Library of Congress control number is n2015211425. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2014 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Estrela Leminski” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.