 Aurora was six years younger than her sister and equally talented and vivacious.In 1932, aged 18, she was asked to perform on the Mayrink Veiga radio station by Josué de Barros, the same composer who had launched her sister's career 10 years earlier.Soon she was snapped up by a rival station and within 12 months she had released her first record, "Cai, Cai, Balão" ("Drop, Drop Balloon") alongside the crooner then considered Brazil's "rei da voz" or "king of the voice", Francisco Alves.