--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Samba Star Carmen Miranda description: On Wednesday, Google Doodle marked what would have been samba star Carmen Miranda's 108th birthday. canonical: https://time.com/4664843/google-doodle-samba-carmen-miranda/ author: Joseph Hincks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-09T06:30:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:56.548Z og:title: Google Doodle Commemorates Samba Star Carmen Miranda og:description: Through her dazzling performances, samba sashayed onto the world stage. og:url: https://time.com/4664843/google-doodle-samba-carmen-miranda/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc46fdda82c280a4e/6988b9748fd2eee342355b78/carmen-mirandas-108th-birthday-6367640367923200-2-hp2x-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: carmen-mirandas-108th-birthday-6367640367923200-2-hp2x-2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Commemorates Samba Star Carmen Miranda twitter:description: Through her dazzling performances, samba sashayed onto the world stage. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc46fdda82c280a4e/6988b9748fd2eee342355b78/carmen-mirandas-108th-birthday-6367640367923200-2-hp2x-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A New Google Doodle Commemorates Samba Star Carmen Miranda ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Feb 9, 2017 6:30 AM UTC  Google Doodle to mark what would have been the 108th birthday of Carmen Miranda, designed by Sophie Diao Google Doodle to mark what would have been the 108th birthday of Carmen Miranda, designed by Sophie Diao by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Feb 9, 2017 6:30 AM UTC Decked in a “fruit hat” inspired by the _baianas—_the Afro-Brazilian fruit vendors she grew up around—singer, dancer, and actor, Carmen Miranda wowed first Brazilian and then international audiences. And through her dazzling performances, _samba_ sashayed onto the world stage. On Thursday, Google marked what would have been the performer’s 108th birthday with a tropical-colored [Doodle ](https://www.google.com/doodles/carmen-mirandas-108th-birthday)of Miranda wearing her signature hat. Born in Portugal, Miranda got her big break after a performance at Brazil’s National Institute of Music; her subsequent first album was released in 1929 to national acclaim. By the time she moved to the U.S. a decade later Miranda was a global draw and in 1941 she became the first Latin American artist invited to leave her hand prints in the cement by Hollywood’s famous Garuman’s Chinese Theater. 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