Salsa e Merengue

Salsa e Merengue
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Miguel Falabella and Maria Carmem Barbosa
Starring	Marcos Palmeira Patrícia França Marcello Antony Débora Bloch Cristiana Oliveira Arlete Salles Victor Fasano Rosamaria Murtinho Laura Cardoso Bia Nunnes Ariclê Perez José D'Artagnan Júnior Thaís de Campos Zezé Polessa Adriana Garambone Gabriela Alves Alexandre Barillari Maria Maya
Opening theme	"María"
Composer	Ricky Martin
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language	Portuguese
No. of episodes	177
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	Rede Globo
Release	September 30, 1996 – May 2, 1997

Salsa e Merengue is a Brazilian telenovela produced and displayed at the time of 19 hours by Rede Globo, September 30, 1996 to May 2, 1997, in 177 chapters.

It was written by Miguel Falabella and Maria Carmem Barbosa, with text supervision of Gilberto Braga and direction of Wolf Maya.

He counted with Patrícia França, Marcos Palmeira, Marcello Antony, Débora Bloch, Victor Fasano, Laura Cardoso, Arlete Salles, Bia Nunnes, José D'Artagnan Júnior, Rosamaria Murtinho, Walmor Chagas and Cristiana Oliveira in the main roles

Cast

Actor	Character
Patrícia França	Madalena Sobral
Marcos Palmeira	Valentim Muñoz
Marcello Antony	Eugênio Amarante Paes
Cristiana Oliveira	Adriana Campos Queiroz
Zezé Polessa	Marinelza Bolla
Laura Cardoso	Ruth Campos Queiroz
Cláudio Cavalcanti	Dr. Olavo
Ariclê Perez	Gilda Campos Queiroz
Bia Nunnes	Remédios Muñoz
Thaís de Campos	Amparo Muñoz
Gabriela Alves	Assunção Muñoz
Diogo Vilela	Caio Graco Leão
Rosi Campos	Dayse Menezes
André Gonçalves	Walter
Maria Maya	Caroline Bolla (Kelly)
Juliana Baroni	Inês Soares da Cunha
Ricardo Petraglia	Tito Soares da Cunha
Mônica Torres	Lídia
Jacqueline Laurence	Eglantine Billard
Stella Miranda	Maria do Socorro
Marcos Oliveira	Cândido (Candinho)
Ademir Zanyor	Jair Billard (Jairzinho)
Estelita Bell	Imaculada Muñoz
Maria Lúcia Dahl	Laís Soares da Cunha
José D'Artagnan Júnior	Edgar
Chico Díaz	Ramiro Morales
Maria Gladys	Neném
Luís Salém	Lázaro
Angela Rebello	Tereza
Regiana Antonini	Deusa
Mara Manzan	Sexta-Feira

Introducing

Actor	Character
Alexandre Barillari	Antônio Muñoz
Adriana Garambone	Clarice Amarante Paes
Johnny Rudge	Moacir Menezes (Moa)
Bruno Murtinho	Wellington
Zezeh Barbosa	Jacinta
Vanessa Dantas	Flávia
Adriano Garib	Juarez

Invited actresses

Actor	Character
Arlete Salles	Anabel Muñoz
Rosamaria Murtinho	Bárbara Amarante Paes

Invited actors

Actor	Character
Walmor Chagas	Guilherme Amarante Paes
Oswaldo Loureiro	Walmir Bolla

Special participation

Actor	Character
Marcos Paulo	Gaspar Junqueira
Nelson Xavier	Mestre Bento Sobral

Débora Bloch como Teodora Bentes do Gama

Victor Fasano como Heitor Lobato

External links

• Salsa e Merengue at IMDb