Patron: ANDRÉS SEGOVIA TORRES
Seat: 9
ABOUT ME
Academic Eliel Jeremias da Silva, son of Artur Donizete da Silva and Vera Lúcia da Silva, was born on April 4, 1979, in Piracicaba, SP. Married to Élira Samara Silva and father of three children, he was raised in a modest family, where he began working as a child, always drawn to sales. At age 12, he encountered an evangelical church and advanced on the Christian path. He studied music and graduated from the Villa-Lobos Conservatory in São Paulo, and by age 15 was already teaching for free. Over the years, he helped train more than 200 musicians. He married at age 18. Throughout his professional career, he always worked in construction and maintenance. Recently, in 2020, he and his wife also entered the food and aesthetics business. At age 21, he became a pastor, a role he held until age 37, leading several churches. He lived briefly in the United States, where he ran a gutter manufacturing company. In 2018, he moved to Portugal, where he currently resides. In Portugal, they founded a renovation company, 1Move1s, which became a success. Today, they own the renowned Tennessee Restaurant, a well-known American-style restaurant in the Coimbra region, as well as a beauty salon and advanced aesthetics studio, also in the city of Coimbra. He is a ship's captain, having trained at the Figueira da Foz Naval School in Portugal.
