GRES União da Ilha do Governador

The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba União da Ilha do Governador was founded on March 7, 1953 the friends Maurício Gazelle, and Quincas Orphylo, who were in Cacuia, the main site of the carnival parade of the Ilha do governador, watching the presentation of small schools of samba and blocks of various districts of the island. It was then decided that the neighborhood of Cacuia should have a samba school that the represent. Currently, the school is based in Estrada do Galeão in the neighborhood of Cacuia.

History

The União da Ilha do Governador remained some time between the second and third groups, and in 1974, were crowned champions when the second group received access to the main group from the years following.

From 1977, with the theme "Sunday", a 1980, when he took second place with the theme "Good, Nice and Cheap", the Island has made great fashion way, with no definitive one of the samba schools more sympathetic panel. The school took to the parade Sapucaí light, cheap and cheerful. This would be the hallmark of the Island, held today. Their costumes are usually mild, without great splendor, making the parade for the component. The school also can establish a good communication with the public and is considered one of the nicest of the carnival. TheTodaywas the samba of the Island in 1978 and that same year was recorded by Elizeth Cardoso, but it was the first recording of Simone in 1983 (CDDelights and Delusionsand re-recorded the CD liveSimone), she became popular.

In recent years, the parade of the best remembered of the island was in 1989. The theme song "Party profane" had the refrain "I'll get drunk with happiness" that, to date, is sung all over the country. That year, the school was in third place.

The last good result was obtained in 1994, with "Abrakadabra," which came in fourth, his last appearance in the Parade of Champions. Since then, it has achieved good placements.

In 2000, with "Not to say I did not speak of flowers", the Island came in eighth place, addressing one of the most nebulous of the 500 years of Brazil: a military dictatorship of 1964 to 1985.

In 2001, the school won the 13. Place of the Special Group, and thus lowered the Access Group A in 2002, which has had ups and downs.

In 2008, even without many resources, the school has a parade of claw, and revived the is now, which earned him fifth place.

From 2008, the samba-school based at the Ilha do Governador neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro city, literally 2 or 3 miles from the Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport, started a professionalization process, with the introduction of a series of management techniques. A marketing department was established, the renovation of its headquarters started to gain interest ( it was finalized May 2012), the financial department re-structured and a series of partnerships started to sprout. ( Today, União da Ilha do Governador Samba School has as one of its main partners Grupo Petrópolis, with Itaipava beer.

In 2009, the "insulana" Samba-School, as it is sometimes called by its revelers, chose the parade theme "Travel is necessary – extraordinary journeys through worlds familiar and unknown," the carnival parade Jack Vasconcelos, became Carnival Champion Access Group A with 239, 9 points; returning after his demotion in 2001, to the so sought after Rio Carnival Special Group in 2010.

In 2010, as the Task Force, came up with the story "Don Quixote the knight of impossible dreams," the carnival Rosa Magalhães, was overshadowed by just a few problems on the floats in front of the battery came queen battery Bruna Bruno, which is the front of the battery for years, along with Luciana Picorelli (current sponsor of the battery). He finished in 11th place, escaping relegation a new and still in the Special for Carnival 2011.

External links

• Official Site (Portuguese)
• GRES União da Ilha Samba-School Profile in English (English)