Acrobat, actress, handstander, trapezist and perchist, Delise 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 sister Fatima started performing acrobatic acts for the Pavilhão Azul, a metalic circus building owned by the businessman 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 twelve to nineteen, Delise 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.