Acrobat, actress, handstander, trapezist and perchist, Raimunda is the daughter of the clown Chocolate  (José de Oliveira, Pernambuco - Campinas, São Paulo, 1945) and of the trapezist Judith Alves Correia da Silva from northeast Brazil. She was born and brought up in a circus and belongs to the third generation of artists that originally started with her grandmother Francelina Silva. As children, she and her sisters Deliseier and Fatima started performing acrobatic acts for the Pavilhão Azul, a metalic circus building owned by Aquiles Pinto in the 1940s. The "Pavilhão" was set up in the corner of the streets Ronaldo de Carvalho and Rodolfo Dantas in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. From eleven to nineteen, Raimunda performed aerial acts - aerial hoop, double trapeze and corde lisse - for the Circo Garcia and later in the circuses Robattini, Gomes, Stevanowich, Romano and Águias Humanas.