- She successfully fought breast cancer.
- Singer, she had two presences in the Song Festival of Portugal.
Descendant in female line of an African King of São Tomé e Príncipe proclaimed in the nineteenth century. - In the first edition of the program Festival RTP da Canção (RTP Song Festival) Simone placed 3º with the song "Olhos nos Olhos" (Eyes in Eyes).
- In 1965 she won the Festival RTP da Canção (RTP Song Festival) with the song "Sol de Inverno" (Winter's Sun).
- She was a presence in the fist edition of Festival Internacional da Canção do Rio de Janeiro (Song International Festival of Rio de Janeiro) - 1966.
- Simone won the Festival RTP da Canção (RTP Song Festival), in 1969, with the song "Desfolhada Portuguesa".
- After sing "Desfolhada" (that change her voice forever) she lost her voice for two years. During those years she worked in journalism, in radio and hosted Tv shows.
- In 1963 and 1964 she received the Press Award.
- In 1962 she made her theater debut. Simone worked in plays like: "O Contracto" (The Contract), "A menina Alice e o Inspector" (Miss Alice and the Inspector), "A Tragédia da Rua das Flores" (The Tragedy of Flowers Street), "Conheci Miguel Torga" (I meet Miguel Torga).
- In 1959 and 1960 she won the Festival da Canção Portuguesa (Portuguesa Song Festival).
- The fist time Simone sang in public was in the Festival da Canção Portuguesa (Portuguesa Song Festival) in 1958.
- Simone is a singer and an actress. She also worked in journalism, radio, and as a Tv host.
- When she was 19 she had a depression. Her doctor told her that she needed to find something to do. Simone decided to go to the Centro de Preparação de Artistas da Emissora Naional (Artists Preparation Center of National Emission).
- Mother: Maria do Carmo Lopes da Silva. Father: Guy de Macedo de Oliveira.
- Simone has a younger sister: Olga Maria.
- Children: Maria Eduarda and António Pedro.
- In 1979 she placed 1º (for interpretation) in the Festival da Nova Canção de Lisboa (New Song Lisbon Festival) with the song "Sempre que tu vens é Primavera" (Every time you come it's Spring).
- In 2017 celebrated 60 years of her career.
- She has two ex-stepdaughters from Varela Silva first marriage (to Celeste Rodrigues): Maria Rita and Maria José.
- She was a mother at 20 and 22 years old.
- She has two grandsons: André (b.1989), António's son, and Guilherme.
- Daughter of Guy de Macedo de Oliveira, Director of a Milling Factory in Santa Maria dos Olivais, Lisbon, and wife Maria do Carmo Tavares Lopes da Silva, Post Office Employee, paternal granddaughter of Egídio de Macedo de Oliveira, natural descendant of the sister of the first and only self-proclaimed King of the Angolares of São Tomé e Príncipe, and wife Jeanette Prado Pluvier, of French Belgian and Portuguese descent. Grew up in Lisbon with her sister Olga Maria de Macedo de Oliveira.
- When of the protests of Civil Servants against a timetable of 40 hours of work per week, in the context of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) intervention in the Portuguese financial crisis, she publicly stated on a television interview that she worked even over those hours as an actress at her more advanced age without any difficulty.
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