Miami-based singer, songwriter, and recording artist who just released a new song this past Friday, marking already her fifth single release this year, working with a multi-GRAMMY Award-winning producer along the way. She is the co-owner of an independent music label called Muy Bueno and two years ago one of her songs hit #3 on the Portugal Pop Chart and Top 40 in Portugal All Genres Charts. Another song of hers, from the year before, hit Top 5 on iTunes pop charts and 15 overall in South Africa. Meanwhile, she has more than made her mark on social media, with more than 15-and-a-half million combined video views on her official YouTube channel and 3.7 million followers on TikTok alone.
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“My producer, like, we work on songs together. If they're in Portuguese, that's all me usually, and in English we combine our ideas.”
“It's all about the vibe, so, if we’re doing a song and it's, like, funk kind of style or it sounds more Latin-y that's when we decide, okay, let's write this verse or this part in Portuguese or in Spanish or in English, and a lot of times I like to mix up the languages in one song. I like to make it, like, fusion because, you know, that's what I am.”
“I've had, like, poems before on my phone and stuff like that, but usually how we work on it is, like, we get the instruments, the beat, done first and then we start writing the melody and then the lyrics.”
“My mom was also an entertainer, like, she did samba and dance and sing at events with my dad, sometimes the company would want both of them together and then I would go with them… and that's kind of like my how my love for entertainment grew.”
“When I learned English, it was through Disney Channel, I was obsessed with Hannah Montana, so, I was learning how to talk like her and then when I lived in France, I was obsessed with America so that was one thing, like, I would always sing in English – or try to sing in English.”
“We went to Atlanta to record my first record and it went from there.”
“There's like a bunch of us that (are) in the entertainment industry and that (are) a victim of being bullied, and so we talk to people we kind of, like, make it known that it's a problem and it's a thing that happens and even us in the entertainment industry, that have success and everything, we've been through that too.”
“Most importantly I feel like I would love to get more artists into my (record label).”
“I do consider myself a professional dancer. I also consider myself a professional belly dancer, on social media I do a lot of that.”
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“Nothing To Me”