Irving São Paulo

Biography

José Irving Santana São Paulo (Feira de Santana, October 26, 1964 – Rio de Janeiro, August 10, 2006), better known as Irving São Paulo, was a Brazilian actor. He was the son of filmmaker Olney São Paulo and brother of actor Ilya São Paulo.Irving already showed great talent since childhood, as a self-taught musician, he soon learned to play the piano, having even formed a band with his brother Ilya São Paulo, the band Coelho Neto. After a lot of success between the 1980s and the early 1990s, in which Irving was constantly cast in Ivani Ribeiro's soap operas, he stopped participating in major Rede Globo productions.