| União da Ilha |
The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba União da Ilha do Governador (Recreation Guild Samba School Union of Governor's Island) was founded on March 7, 1953 by the friends Maurício Gazelle, and Quincas Orphylo, who were in Cacuia, the main site of the carnival parade of the Ilha do Governador, watching the presentation of small schools of samba and blocks of various districts of the island. It was then decided that the neighborhood of Cacuia should be represented by a samba school. Currently, the school is based in Estrada do Galeão in the neighborhood of Cacuia.
The União da Ilha do Governador remained some time between the second and third groups, and in 1974, were crowned champions when the second group received access to the main group from the years following.
From 1977, with the theme "Sunday", till 1980, when they took second place with the theme "Good, Nice and Cheap", the Island has made a fashionable impression, with no definitive one of the samba schools more sympathetic to the judges. The school took to the parade Sapucaí light, cheap and cheerful. This would be the hallmark of the Island, held today. Their costumes are usually mild, without great splendor, making the parade for the performance. The school also can establish a good communication with the public and is considered one of the nicest of the carnival. The Today was the samba of the Island in 1978 and that same year was recorded by Elizeth Cardoso, but it was the first recording of Simone in 1983 (CD Delights and Delusions and re-recorded the live CD Simone), when she became popular.
In recent years, the best remembered parade of the island was in 1989. The theme song "Party profane" had the refrain "I'll get drunk with happiness" that, to date, is sung all over the country. That year, the school was in third place.
The last good result was obtained in 1994, with "Abrakadabra," which came in fourth, their last appearance in the Parade of Champions. Since then, they have achieved good placements.
In 2000, with "Not to say I did not speak of flowers", the Island came in eighth place, addressing some of the darkest of the 500 years of Brazil: a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985.
In 2001, the school won 13th place in the Special Group, and were thus lowered to Access Group A in 2002, where they had ups and downs. In 2008, even without many resources, the school had a parade of claw, and revived "É hoje o dia" ("Today is the Day"), which earned them fifth place.
From 2008, the samba-school based at the Ilha do Governador neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro city, literally 2 or 3 miles from the Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport, started a professionalization process, with the introduction of a series of management techniques. A marketing department was established, the renovation of its headquarters started to gain interest (it was finalized May 2012), the financial department re-structured and a series of partnerships started to sprout. Today, União da Ilha do Governador Samba School has as one of its main partners Grupo Petrópolis, with Itaipava beer.
In 2009, the "insulana" (islander) samba-school, as it is sometimes called by its revelers, chose the parade theme "Travel is necessary – extraordinary journeys through worlds familiar and unknown". The carnival parade organizer Jack Vasconcelos became Carnival Champion of Group A with 239.9 points, returning after his demotion in 2001 to the so sought after Rio Carnival Special Group in 2010.
In 2010, as the Task Force came up with the story "Don Quixote the knight of impossible dreams," the carnival organizer Rosa Magalhães was overshadowed by just a few problems on the floats. In front of the drums came drums queen Bruna Bruno, who has been the front of the drums for years, along with Luciana Picorelli (current sponsor of the drums). They finished in 11th place, escaping relegation anew and still in the Special for Carnival 2011.
After the carnival, a school that has defined its plot in 2016, before the carnival 2015. That will be on the 2016 Summer Olympics in which after the departure of Alex de Souza backed the return Paulo Menezes and Jack Vasconcelos, as carnival. and had a change of queen of battery where after 11 years ahead of the battery Bruna Bruno abdicated the throne and was replaced by Bianca Leão. However, in a parade is shorter than the previous years, finished in 11th place.
However, for 2017 the school has changed the whole team starting with the carnival producer Severo Luzardo, director of carnival Wilsinho and the mestre-sala and porta-bandeira Phelipe Lemos and Dandara.
| Year | Place | Division | Plot | Carnivals Producers | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singers | ||||||
| 1960 | 3rd place | Grupo 3 | Homenagem às forças armadas | Djalma | [1] [2] | |
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1961 | Vice Champion | Grupo 2 | Rio, sempre Rio | Djalma | ||
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1962 | 14th place | Grupo 2 | Homenagem a Catulo da Paixão Cearense | Marcinha Seresteira | [3] | |
| Djalma | ||||||
| 1963 | 10th place | Grupo 3 | Garimpeiros do Araguaia | Nelson | ||
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1964 | 10th place | Grupo 3 | Riquezas do Brasil | Nelson | ||
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1965 | 5th place | Grupo 3 | De Estácio a Lacerda | Nelson | ||
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1966 | 4th place | Grupo 3 | A queda da Monarquia | Djalma | ||
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1968 | 11th place | Grupo 3 | A Revolução dos Alfaiates | Nelson | ||
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1969 | 5th place | Grupo 2 | Imagens do Brasil | Moleque | ||
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1967 | 3rd place | Grupo 3 | Epopéia dos Palmares | D. Lopes | ||
| Marcinha Seresteira | ||||||
| 1970 | Vice Champion | Grupo 2 | O sonho de um sambista | Edson Machado | [4] | |
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1971 | 14th place | Grupo 2 | Ritual afro-brasileiro | Edson Machado | [5] | |
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1972 | 8th place | Grupo 2 | A festa da cavalhada | Maria Augusta | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1973 | 9th place | Grupo 2 | Y Juca Pirama | Maria Augusta | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1974 | Champion | Grupo 2 | Lendas e festas das Yabás | Mário Barcellos | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1975 | 9th place | Grupo 1 | Nos confins de Vila Monte | Mário Barcellos | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1976 | 9th place | Grupo 1 | Poemas de Máscaras e sonhos | Mário Barcellos | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1977 | 3rd place | Grupo 1 | Domingo | |||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1978 | 4th place | Grupo 1 | O Amanhã | Maria Augusta | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1979 | 5th place | Grupo 1A | O que será? | Adalberto Sampaio | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1980 | Vice Champion | Grupo 1A | Bom, bonito e barato | Adalberto Sampaio | [6] [7] | |
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1981 | 7th place | Grupo 1A | 1910, Burro na cabeça | Adalberto Sampaio | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1982 | 5th place | Grupo 1A | É Hoje | Max Lopes | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1983 | 7th place | Grupo 1A | Toma lá dá cá | Wany Araújo | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1984 | 5th place | Grupo 1A | Quem pode pode, quem não pode... | Geraldo Cavalcanti | ||
| Quinzinho | ||||||
| 1985 | 12th place | Grupo 1A | Um herói, um enredo, uma canção | Luís Orlando | ||
| Quinho | ||||||
| 1986 | 5th place | Grupo 1A | Assombrações | Arlindo Rodrigues | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1987 | 9th place | Grupo 1 | Extra, Extra | Alexandre Louzada | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1988 | 6th place | Grupo 1 | Aquarilha do Brasil | Max Lopes | ||
| Quinho | ||||||
| 1989 | 3rd place | Grupo 1 | Festa Profana | Ney Ayan | ||
| Quinho | ||||||
| 1990 | 7th place | Grupo Especial | Sonhar com Rei dá João | Ney Ayan | ||
| Quinho | ||||||
| 1991 | 9th place | Grupo Especial | De bar em bar, Didi um poeta | |||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1992 | 10th place | Grupo Especial | Sou mais minha Ilha | Luiz Fernando Reis | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1993 | 11th place | Grupo Especial | Os maiores espetáculos da Terra | Sylvio Cunha | ||
| Mauricio 100 | ||||||
| 1994 | 4th place | Grupo Especial | Abrakadabra, O despertar dos mágicos | Chico Spinoza | ||
| Quinho | ||||||
| 1995 | 11th place | Grupo Especial | Todo dia é dia de Índio | Chico Spinoza | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1996 | 12th place | Grupo Especial | A Ilha faz uma viagem a pintada encantada | Chico Spinoza | ||
| Aroldo Melodia | ||||||
| 1997 | 12th place | Grupo Especial | Cidade Maravilhosa, o sonho de Pereira Passos | Roberto Szaniecki | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 1998 | 9th place | Grupo Especial | Fatumbi - a Ilha de Todos os Santos | Milton Cunha | ||
| Rixxah | ||||||
| 1999 | 10th place | Grupo Especial | Barbosa Lima, 101 anos do sobrinho do Brasil | Milton Cunha | ||
| 2000 | 8th place | Grupo Especial | Pra não dizer que não falei de flores | Mário Borriello | ||
| Serginho do Porto | ||||||
| 2001 | 13th place | Grupo Especial | A União faz a força, com muita energia | Wany Araújo | ||
| Wander Pires | ||||||
| 2002 | 3rd place | Grupo A | Folias de Caxias - De João a João... É o Carnaval da União | Mário Borriello | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2003 | 2nd place | Grupo A | Chega em seu cavalinho azul uma bruxinha boa. An Ilha trouxe do céu Maria Clara Machado | Paulo Menezes | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2004 | 7th place | Grupo A | Com Pandeiro ou Sem Pandeiro... Eu Brinco. Com Dinheiro ou Sem Dinheiro... Eu Também Brinco | Paulo Menezes | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2005 | 2nd place | Grupo A | Das Veredas dos Trilhos an um Sonho de Fé... A Ilha Traz a Conquista do Pináculo, Corcovado Tentação | |||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2006 | 3rd place | Grupo A | Das Minas Del Rei São João | Jack Vasconcelos | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2007 | 4th place | Grupo A | Ripa na Tulipa, Ilha! | |||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2008 | 5th place | Grupo A | É hoje o dia | Jack Vasconcelos | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2009 | Champion | Grupo A | Viajar é Preciso - Viagens extraordinárias através de Mundos conhecidos e desconhecidos | Jack Vasconcelos | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2010 | 11th place | Grupo Especial | Dom Quixote de La Mancha, o cavaleiro dos sonhos impossíveis | Rosa Magalhães | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2011 | Hors Concours | Grupo Especial | O mistério da vida | Alex de Souza | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2012 | 8th place | Grupo Especial | De Londres ao Rio: Era uma vez... uma Ilha. | Alex de Souza | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2013 | 9th place | Grupo Especial | Vinícius, no plural. Paixão, poesia e carnaval | Alex de Souza | [8] [9] [10] | |
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2014 | 4th place | Grupo Especial | É Brinquedo, é brincadeira. An Ilha vai levantar poeira! | Alex de Souza | [11] [12] [13] | |
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2015 | 9th place | Grupo Especial | Beleza Pura? | Alex de Souza | [14] [15] [16] | |
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2016 | 11th place | Grupo Especial | Olímpico por natureza.Todo mundo se encontra no Rio! | [17] | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2017 | 8th place | Grupo Especial | Nzara Ndembu - Glória ao senhor tempo | Severo Luzardo | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2018 | 10th place | Grupo Especial | Brasil, bom de boca | Severo Luzardo | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2019 | 10th place | Grupo Especial | A peleja poética entre Rachel e Alencar no avarandado do céu | Severo Luzardo | ||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2020 | 13th place | Grupo Especial | Nas encruzilhadas da vida, entre becos, ruas e vielas, a sorte está lançada: salve-se quem puder | |||
| Ito Melodia | ||||||
| 2022 | 3rd place | O vendedor de orações | ||||
| Ito Melodia |