Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel is a Brazilian presenter, actress, singer and businesswoman. Known as the "queen of the short ones", Xuxa built the largest Latin and Southern American children's entertainment empire. In the early 1990s, she presented television programs in Brazil, Argentina, Spain and the United States simultaneously, reaching around 100 million viewers daily. Xuxa has sold over 30 million copies of her records worldwide, which makes her the highest-selling Brazilian female singer. Her net worth was estimated at US$100 million in the early 1990s. Also successful as a businesswoman, she has the highest net worth of any Brazilian female entertainer, estimated at US$400 million.
The Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão is a Brazilian television network founded on Wednesday, 19 August 1981, by the businessman and television personality Silvio Santos. The company was established after a public tender by the Brazilian Federal Government to form two new networks, created from revoked concessions of the defunct Tupi and Excelsior networks. The SBT was founded on the same day that the concession agreement was signed, and that the act was broadcast live by the network, so that this was his first program aired. Before acquiring the concessions of the four station that were to form the SBT, Grupo Silvio Santos had since 1976 the concession of Rio de Janeiro's channel 11, known as TVS Rio de Janeiro, which was a fundamental step to give life to the SBT.
Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She is known in the English-speaking world for her Golden Globe Award–nominated performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). She also received a BAFTA Award nomination in 1981 for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. For the 1994 television film The Burning Season, she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award. Her other television and film credits include The Cosby Show (1986), Sex and the City (2001), American Family (2002), Alias (2005), Aquarius (2016), Bacurau (2019), and Fatima (2020). In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #24 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
Nilcedes Soares de Magalhães, known professionally as Glória Menezes, is a Brazilian actress.
Rede Manchete was a Brazilian television network that was founded in Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1983 by the Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and businessman Adolpho Bloch. The network remained on the air until 10 May 1999. It was part of Grupo Bloch, which published the magazine Manchete by Bloch Editores, its publishing division; the television network was named after the magazine.
Ana Paula de Vasconcelos Padrão, also known as Ana Paula Padrão is a Brazilian journalist, chief editor, entrepreneur, writer and television presenter. She has been a journalist for over thirty years, working for several Brazilian television networks, including Manchete, Rede Globo, SBT and Record. Currently she works for Band Networks, where she hosts MasterChef Brazil, MasterChef Profissionais and MasterChef Para Tudo. She also presents Conexão com The New York Times in BandNews TV.
Som Livre is a Brazilian record company that was founded in March 1969 in order to commercialize the soundtracks for Rede Globo soap operas. It later expanded to recording studio albums.
This is the discography of Xuxa, a presenter, actress, singer and former model from Brazil. The singer has released twenty-eight studio albums, thirteen compilations, eight Spanish-language albums, over two hundred music videos and one hundred and ten singles. Xuxa became notorious after presenting the Clube da Criança program on the extinct Rede Manchete between 1984 and 1985, and soon after embarked on her first studio albums and soundtracks: Clube da Criança and Xuxa e Seus Amigos. However, it was with the albums of the Xou da Xuxa collection, which had significant sales that she achieved success.
Gabriel Braga Nunes is a Brazilian actor, best known for his work in telenovelas, specially Essas Mulheres, Cidadão Brasileiro, Caminhos do Coração and Poder Paralelo. He also stars in Insensato Coração for TV Globo.
Juliana Riva Baroni is a Brazilian actress and singer. She is best known for being a paquita for five years and for her leading role on the Rede Bandeirantes telenovela Dance, Dance, Dance.
Yara da Silva Amaral was a Brazilian actress.
Christiane Maria dos Santos Torloni is a Brazilian actress. She is the winner of numerous awards, including an APCA Award, two Prêmios Qualidade Brasil, and a Shell Award, as well as receiving nominations for a Grande Otelo and three Troféu Imprensas. She is one of the most renowned actresses in Brazilian television drama.
Insensato Coração is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo that first premiered 17 January 2011, replacing Passione and ended on 19 August 2011, followed by Fina Estampa. It is created and written by Gilberto Braga and Ricardo Linhares in collaboration with Ângela Carneiro, Fernando Rebello, Izabel de Oliveira, João Ximenes Braga, Maria Helena Nascimento and Nelson Nadotti. Directed by Dennis Cavalho and Vinícius Coimbra together with Cristiano Marques, Flávia Lacerda, Maria de Médicis and Luísa Lima.
The Brazilian telenovela, the most popular form of teledramaturgy in Brazil, has been produced and aired in the country since the 1950s. Sua Vida Me Pertence, written and directed by Walter Forster and shown on the now-defunct TV Tupi São Paulo between December 21, 1951 and February 15, 1952, was the world's first telenovela. According to Keske & Scherer, telenovelas have held the "status of the most profitable product in the Brazilian cultural industry" since the mid-1970s.
Antônio de Carvalho Barbosa, known professionally as Tony Ramos, is a Brazilian actor.
Xuxa e os Duendes is a 2001 Brazilian fantasy musical adventure children's film directed by Paulo Sérgio de Almeida, Rogério Gomes and Márcio Vito with a screenplay by Vivian Perl and Wagner de Assis. Based on personal experiences lived by Brazilian TV host Xuxa Meneghel. It contains in his cast Xuxa Meneghel, Guilherme Karan, Debby Lagranha, Leonardo Cordonis, Gugu Liberato, Ana Maria Braga, Emiliano Queiroz, Angélica, Wanessa Camargo.
Alexandre Pongrácz Rossi is a zootechnician and a Brazilian TV presenter. Alexandre Rossi holds a degree in Zootechnics and a Masters in Psychology from USP. He specialized in Animal Behavior and gained work experience from the University of Queensland, Australia. Today, he is attending veterinary medicine course at FMU.
Xuxa Meneghel was a Brazilian late-night talk show hosted by Xuxa and produced by Rede Record. It was broadcast on Monday nights between 17 August 2015 and 19 December 2016. Originally the program would gain a new season in 2017, however the broadcaster and presenter decided to finalize it to be able to focus on the new project, Dancing Brasil.
Xuxa e os Duendes 2: No Caminho das Fadas is a 2002 Brazilian fantasy adventure children's film directed by Paulo Sérgio de Almeida, Rogério Gomes and Márcio Vito and written by Vivian Perl and Wagner de Assis. It is the sequel to Xuxa e os Duendes (2001). Xuxa Meneghel, Ana Maria Braga, Debby Lagranha, Emiliano Queiroz, Tadeu Mello and Guilherme Karan reprise their respective roles from the first film, joined by Luciano Szafir, Betty Lago, Vera Fischer, Deborah Secco, Thiago Fragoso. In this sequel, Kira (Xuxa), the elf of light, is in charge of saving her friends and mankind from a curse that would petrify the hearts of lovers and end love on the face of the Earth.
Louro José was a parrot puppet played by former stage manager Neilton Veiga Júnior, better known as Tom Veiga (1973–2020). Louro had participated, along with TV presenter Ana Maria Braga, on Mais Você, a show which airs from Monday through Friday on TV Globo.
