Silvio Santos (born Senor Abravanel on December 12, 1930) is a TV show host in Brazil and owner of SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão), the second biggest Brazillian television network. Santos was born in Rio de Janeiro and had a knack for business from a young age. He began working as a street vendor. He is Jewish and of Turkish and Greek background. Despite his initial job as a street vendor, he had a strong affinity for artistic endeavors and began working on radio, the circus and television, but without abandoning entrepreneurial activities.

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