Born on November 19, 1954, in the coastal city of Santos, São Paulo, Kid Bengala entered the adult industry relatively late in life. It was not until he was 27 years old, recently divorced and at a personal crossroads, that he posed nude for a foreign magazine. That single photo shoot would become his unlikely passport to a career in pornography. By the late 1980s, he had officially begun his journey, but it was in the 1990s and 2000s, under the banner of Brasileirinhas, that he became a household name, starring in more than 100 productions and cementing his status as one of the most recognized figures in the sector.