Silvio Santos OMC, stage name of Senor Abravanel (Rio de Janeiro, December 12, 1930), is a Brazilian television presenter and businessman. He has over 60 years of career.
He was born in Travessa Bemtevi, in the Lapa neighborhood, in the central region of the city of Rio de Janeiro, then capital of Brazil and headquarters of the then Federal District. He is the eldest son of an immigrant couple who came to Brazil in 1924, Alberto Abravanel (1897-1976), a Sephardic Greek immigrant from Thessalonica, and Rebeca Caro, a Jewess of Smyrna, part of the old Ottoman Empire.
He debuted on television in 1962, with the program Vamos Brincar de Forca, broadcast on TV Paulista. Subsequently, the attraction would become the Silvio Santos Program, which became a grouping of various auditorium programs and staff. In addition to transforming Silvio Santos into one of the great icons of Brazilian television, the program highlighted the announcer Lombardi, whose face was never seen, the producer Roque, and other members of the team, such as the animator Liminha.