Acrobat, trapezist, equilibrist, singer, actress, comedian and theater director. She is the daughter of Vergílio Adriano and Odila Dias Teixeira Adriano (whose brother is Sebastião Coutinho Teixeira, owner of the Gold Star Circus). Sonia acted in various circuses throughout Brazil. However, she made her debut at the old Circo-Teatro Adriático, owned by her father. In 1956, she adopted the artistic name "La Cubanita" and together with the artist J. Santos, they performed in the defunct tv station Itacolomi Channel 4, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Later in her life she became known as Sonia Gray when she started in aerial acts - trapeze and corde lisse - wearing high heel shoes, just as the trapezist Coracy Alciati did in the 1940s. In 1969, she and the clown Disparada became the owners of Circo do Disparada, where she made adaptations of theater plays and melodramas. Disparada learned circus arts from Sonia and they lived together for almost twenty years, until 1984, when the circus closed down. In 2006, she was awarded Prêmio Funarte Carequinha de Estímulo ao Circo; in 2007, she was the director of the II Mostra de Artes Circenses in the countryside of São Paulo and participated in the II Festival Internacional de Comicidade Feminina "Esse Monte de Mulher Palhaça", at Sesc Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro. Sonia is considered a circus master and is always invited to lead workshops and talks about the circus universe.