Michael Biggs

Michael Fernand Nascimento de Castro Biggs, known professionally as Mike Biggs (August 16, 1974), is a Brazilian singer most known as a member of children's music group Turma do Balão Mágico. Early life Biggs was born on 16 August 1974 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to 45-year old Ronnie Biggs, a British fugitive criminal who had fled the UK in 1970, and his girlfriend, 19-year old Raimunda Rothen de Castro, a Brazilian stripper. He lived in Santa Teresa, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Zona Central, Rio de Janeiro. Career Biggs' music career began in 1982, when his father was kidnapped by British ex-soldiers hoping to collect a reward from the British police. Biggs made a plea on national television for the safe return of his father. Publicity from the television appearance led to him being offered a role in children's musical group Turma do Balão Mágico. From 1983 to 1986 he starred on the Rede Globo television show Balão Mágico which featured the band.