{"key":"94190","name":"Babado Novo","bio":"Babado Novo is a band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, within the axe music genre. The band was lead by the singer Claudia Leitte.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/94190_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"7515","name":"Ivete Sangalo","bio":"Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo (born May 27, 1972 in Juazeiro, Bahia) is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axe and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host. She is currently one of the most popular and best-selling Brazilian female singers, with six albums released with \"Banda Eva\", and seven more albums in a solo career, with a total of over 12 million albums sold worldwide. Sangalo is most often recognized by her powerful voice, charisma and live performances. Her music is also very popular in Portugal. She has received 14 nominations for Latin Grammy Awards in her career. As a teenager, Sangalo started to sing and play acoustic guitar at events, festivals and presentations of the school where she studied. Her debut show happened in the Ondina Neighborhood, Salvador, in August 1992. With that show she won the Dorival Caymmi trophy, the Grammy of Bahian music. The solo singer was once part of a group called Banda Eva, and with them recorded six CDs and sold over four million copies.In 1993, Sony decided to reform the ax\u00e9 group Banda Eva and she was chosen as the lead singer. With her charismatic image, their first album soon topped the Brazilian album chart. Her live album with the band, Banda Eva Ao Vivo, was their best-selling album, selling over a million copies. In 1997 she decided to start a solo career and in 1999 she released her first self-titled album. With lots of upbeat Bahian rhythms and ax\u00e9, the album received gold and platinum certification. The following year she released another album, Beat Beleza, which also achieved platinum status.In 2000 she released the album Festa (Party). The single was very popular and the album got platinum certification. \"Festa\" was her biggest hit single up to that point and the video also received huge airplay. \"Festa\" ended up being the most popular song of 2001 in Brazil. In 2002, she released the album Se Eu N\u00e3o Te Amasse Tanto Assim (If I Didn't Love You So Much), titled after her big hit that reached the first position in the singles chart. The album, which features a duet with American singer Brian McKnight, didn't sell as much , but was still a hit. Following Se Eu N\u00e3o Te Amasse Tanto Assim, she released Clube Carnavalesco Inocentes Em Progresso in 2003. It was the lowest-selling solo album of her career but it still managed to receive gold certification.MTV Ao Vivo Ivete Sangalo (MTV Live: Ivete Sangalo) released in 2004, was a live album and included her biggest hits, lots of them never released on an album before, and some Banda Eva hits. The album received diamond certification and was the second best-selling album of 2004.Her 2005 album, As Supernovas, received triple platinum certification shortly after it's release. The album was less upbeat than the others and included some songs with a 70's touch, with the big influence of Brazilian singer Ed Motta. She also included the hit \"Soy Loco Por Ti America\", a Gilberto Gil song. \"Quando a Chuva Passar\" recently reached number two on the Brazilian singles chart and was notable for being nominated at the Latin Grammy Awards, an uncommon feature for a non-Spanish speaking singer.On December 16, 2006, she performed in the biggest stadium in the world, Maracan\u00e3 in Rio de Janeiro, where Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Kiss, The Police, and Madonna have also performed. She was the first Brazilian act to perform in this stadium since pop phenomenon Sandy & Junior in 2002.Ivete has sold more than 7 million CD copies and more than 2.5 million DVD copies.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/7515_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"8177","name":"Anitta","bio":"Anitta (born Larissa de Macedo Machado; March 30, 1993) is a Brazilian recording artist, songwriter, and dancer.The stage name \"Anitta\" was inspired by the Rede Globo miniseries Presen\u00e7a de Anita. She thought the character Anita was \"amazing\" because she could \"be sexy without being vulgar\u2013a girl and woman at the same time.\"At 17, she won the award for \"Breakout in Funk\". Anitta began her career singing in the choir of the Church of Santa Luzia in the Honorio Gurgel neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro at age 8. Before concentrating on music, she considered an administrative career in the mining company Vale do Rio Doce in which she worked.Her success in the bailes funk in Rio de Janeiro yielded a contract with record label Warner Music. Anitta had worked with producer Furac\u00e3o 2000 in mid-2010 and 2011, who had contacted her after videos of her singing on the Internet drew attention in 2009. She began gaining recognition on funk radio stations in Rio de Janeiro with her first song, Eu Vou Ficar.Her debut studio album was released on July 3, 2013 by Warner Music. The album's lead single was Meiga e Abusada released in February, followed by Show das Poderosas, released in April. The song reached number two on Billboard Hot 100 Airplay in Brazil and has sold more than 24,633 copies on Brazilian iTunes Store. The album sold more than 40,000 copies in just 10 days in Brazil, being certified as Gold by Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD).anittaoficial.com.br.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/8177_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"66220","name":"Valesca Popozuda","bio":"Valesca Reis Santos, better known as Valesca Popozuda (born October 6, 1978 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian musician, dancer and former reality show contestant. She is the current singer for the Brazilian funk carioca band Gaiola das Popozudas. Her name means \"Big-butted Valesca\" in Brazilian Portuguese.She is a founding member of the Brazilian funk carioca group Gaiola das Popozudas, which was created in the beginning of the 2000s (decade), whose most famous songs include \"Late que eu t\u00f4 passando\" (Bark Because I'm Passing by), \"Agora eu t\u00f4 solteira\" (Now I'm Single) and its uncensored version, \"Agora eu virei puta\" (Now I've Become a whore), and \"Quero te dar\" (I Want to Be Fucked by You). Valesca is noted for her slightly hoarse voice, for her irreverence and large buttocks (which are insured for R$5.000.000, have 550ml silicone implants in each side and are big enough to balance a glass). She was the June 2009 Playmate of the Brazilian Playboy. In 2011, she was participated in the fourth edition of the Brazilian reality show A Fazenda, where she finished 4th. Valesca got along with everyone in the house, and was too welcomed by public due to, along with Raquel Pacheco, Monique Evans and Joana Machado (the final three of the show), taking part of the most popular alliance from that season.https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valesca_Popozuda","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/66220_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"8067","name":"Kelly Key","bio":"Kelly Key (born March 3, 1983) is a brazilian pop singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and presenter.Key has sold over 2 million copies in Brazil and other countries of Latin america.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/8067_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"19742","name":"Preta Gil","bio":"Preta Maria Gadelha Gil Moreira (born August 08, 1974 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro), known as Preta Gil, is a brazilian singer\/actress who rose to fame during the early 2000s. She also hosted a TV show, \"Caixa Preta\". She's also known as Gilberto Gil's daughter.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/19742_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"46529","name":"Banda Eva","bio":"The EVA (or group known as Banda EVA) is a band of Bahian ax\u00e9 music that has great success during the 1990s, under the voice of Ivete Sangalo, through Emanuelle Ara\u00fajo and currently, the EVA has the lead singer Saulo Fernandes. EVA The band emerged in 1993 from the block carnavalesco soteropolitano homonym. At the end of the 1970s, a group of friends, members of the Marist College community of El Salvador, met every week-end to chat and sing. Those meetings came in 1980, the idea of forming a block of carnavalesco EVA name, short for \"Old Airport Road\", a place where the block was annually and has not therefore any connection - although many think so \u2013 with biblical allegory of Adam and Eve In 2002, the band changed its name EVA and is now called Group of EVA or EVA only. Today the group owns the block and EVA band, franchises in Brazil and produces festivals and micaretas. The Banda Eva pull circuit in the Campo Grande Bloco Eva, in the Barra-Ondina circuit the band currently commands the blocks Bamboo and Coco N\u00fa Other. Have also commanded the block Beer & CIA.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/46529_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"46513","name":"Daniela Mercury","bio":"Daniela Mercury (born Daniela Mercuri de Almeida on July 28, 1965), is a Brazilian axe, samba-reggae, and MPB singer, songwriter, and record producer. Since her breakthrough, Mercury has become one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide. She is also the Brazilian female performer with most #1 hits in the country, with 14.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/46513_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"8037","name":"Lorena Simpson","bio":"Born in Manaus, Brazil, dancer since the age of 11, Lorena Simpson left his home town in order to improve the art of dance. He participated in many festivals and dance companies throughout the country, to achieve one of the vacancies as a member of Kelly's dancers at the beginning of his career, subsequently becoming a choreographer.Even focused on his career as a dancer, Lorena always showed talent and potential to the corner, until he began singing informally among friends, making small stakes and backing vocals.In 2008 he met the producers of MaxPop Music, Jam and Mr. Ian Donnelly, who believed in his potential and signed a partnership with the label recording the unprecedented single \"Feel Da Funk,\" where the girl realizes its potential.In live performances, Lorena shows versatility as an artist, with international hits in their repertoire, where cansagrou in collaboration with DJ Philip War.In February 2009, marked a new hit musical history of the singer, was released throughout Brazil \"Brand New Day.\" The song topped the success of its predecessor and became the most played single on every track in 2009. The agenda was taken up by the singer's concerts and projects with Maxpop Music, performances with Philip War and show reference to the singer turned solo was played by the biggest and best clubs in Brazil.Was in Mexico, where the music still appears in the Top 5 for the most radio-targeted electronic music, one year after its release, thus beginning his international career. Presented in September by Energy 97 new project, Revolution Of Love, and, like their first single, the band does not come as a duet with Philip War, despite having remix producer. Also striking were singles on the radio and dance floors the music Can not Stop Loving You and Breathe Again.The singer's new single released in June 2011, Dreams, is already included in the show Simpson and Lorena hit already among the most requested in the largest LGBT webradio in Brazil, the Omega Hitz.http:\/\/www.lorenasimpson.com.br","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/8037_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}