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Born | Patricia Lissa Kashiwaba Martins 29 March 1984 Sertanópolis, Paraná, Brazil |
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Years active | 2002–present |
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Patricia Lissa Kashiwaba Martins (born 29 March 1984) [1] is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge. She remained with the group until 2005, during which time they released four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La Vie (2003), Blá Blá Blá (2004), and Mil e Uma Noites (2005), collectively selling 6 million copies. This made the group one of the most successful in Brazil, and one of the twenty best-selling girl groups in the world. [2]
In 2007, she became a stage actress, focusing on musical theatre. She debuted as a protagonist in Miss Saigon playing Kim, an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. In 2009 she starred in the Broadway version of the Beauty and the Beast, based on the Walt Disney animated film. In 2010, she starred in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and in 2011 she starred in her first comedy, The Phantom of the Mask, inspired by the classic Phantom of the Opera.
In 2012 she played the role of Filipina Cynthia in the Brazilian production of Priscilla - Queen of the Desert, based on the film of the same title. In 2014, she toured Brazil with Disney in Concert, a mix of musical and entertainment shows featuring the performance of the famous songs of classic Walt Disney animated films. [3] In 2015 she became part of the eighth season of the reality show The Farm . In 2016, she released her first single Vai Chegar, which is part of the opening theme of Sila's telenovela Rede Bandeirantes. [4]
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Patricia Lissah Kashiwaba Martins was born to a doctor and educator in Sertanópolis, Paraná. However, she lived all her childhood and adolescence in Rolândia. [1] At the age of four, she began attending Japanese language classes and sang in music contests in the Japanese community. Martins was encouraged by her maternal grandmother, who was Japanese, and since she lived inside the community she used the Japanese part of her name, "Lissah Kashiwaba". Lissah was also part of her school's choir, which performed at celebration parties in the city. Initially, singing was a hobby because she wanted to be a doctor like her father, but at the age of fourteen she began to sing professionally. She became a popular event singer, performing at weddings, graduations, fairs, and other celebrations in her city and region.
In 2002, Li Martins enrolled in the talent show Popstars and was selected from around 30,000 people, and passed to the second phase of the audition. More than 6 thousand people classified in the Anhembi Sambadrome, Sao Paulo, where they performed auditions. After 5 qualifying rounds, only 8 girls were selected as finalists which took place at the home of the Popstars. After the 6th and final eliminating phase, the Brazilian girl group was finally formed by Fantine Thó, Li Martins, Luciana Andrade, Aline Wirley, and Karin Hils. In the same year, they won a contract for their first studio album, Rouge, to be released. It was an instant hit, reaching the number 1 place on several music charts and selling around 2 million copies. They were awarded the diamond certificate by the Brazilian Association of Record Producers (ABPD). [2] The lead single was Não Dá para Resistir, [5] followed by Ragatanga, a track which featured the Spanish girl group Las Ketchup. Other tracks include Beijo Molhado and Nunca Deixe de Sonhar. [6] The group released a remix album titled Rouge Remixes, which sold 150 thousand copies, receiving a gold certificate, and the video album O Sonho de Ser Uma Popstar. [2]
In 2003 the group released their second studio album, C'est La Vie , selling around 100,000 copies in the first week of release and around 1 million copies in total. The album included singles like Brilha La Luna , Um Anjo Veio Me Falar and Vem Cair na Zueira . [7] On December 3, 2003, the second recording of concerts of the group is released on DVD, titled A Festa dos Seus Sonhos . [8] On February 11, 2004, Luciana announced that she was leaving the group, claiming a lack of identification with the group's sound. [9] After the departure of Luciana, the four remaining members continued recording and released the albums Blá Blá Blá (2004) and Mil e Uma Noites (2005). The group split permanently in June 2006, when their contract with Sony Music expired and was not renewed. Over the course of four years, the group sold about 6 million records, [10] becoming the most successful female group in Brazil and receiving two gold certificates, two platinum certificates, one double platinum certificate, and one diamond certificate by ABPD. [2]
In 2007, Li was invited to record the Portuguese version of Gotta Go My Own Way, from the soundtrack of High School Musical 2 , originally performed by Vanessa Hudgens. The track, entitled Vou Ser do Jeito que Eu Sou, was released as a single that year, marking the new phase of her career. In 2008 she returned to her first stage name, Lissah Martins, in honor of her maternal grandfather Takuichi Kashiwaba, and made her musical debut as Miss Saigon in a production by Cameron Mackintosh of Boublil & Schönberg, which was staged for the first time in London and two years later debuted on Broadway. The musical went to 25 countries, translated into 12 different languages and watched by more than 30 million viewers. Miss Saigon won many awards around the world, including the Tony Awards, the premier award for American theater. In 2009, once again starring in a blockbuster Broadway hit, Lissah played the character Belle, Beauty and the Beast . Based on Walt Disney's two-Oscars design and the first animation to run for the main prize (Best Picture), Broadway's stage set has surpassed 13,000 performances worldwide, seen by 16 million viewers in more than 13 countries, including Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Argentina.
In 2010, Lissah also appeared in Jekyll & Hyde - The Doctor and the Monster . Another Broadway musical, based on the classic work of Robert Louis Stevenson. With a version of Cláudio Botelho and direction of Fred Hanson, the show has already been assembled in 17 countries, with more than 1,500 exhibitions at the Plymouth Theater in New York, which was on display at Teatro Bradesco in São Paulo. In 2011, Lissah performed with the children's musical The Phantom of the Mask at the Raul Cortez Theater in São Paulo and the Clara Nunes Theater in Rio de Janeiro. The show is a free adaptation that the mining author Victor Louis Stutz made of the classic Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux. The direction is of Rosi Campos, well known for having interpreted the Morga Witch of the Rá-Tim-Bum Castle . In 2012, she took part in another great challenge in musical theater, the role of Filipina Cynthia, married to the mechanic Bob, character of Saulo Vasconcelos, in the Brazilian production of Priscilla - Queen of the Desert , which began the season on March 17 in the Theater Bradesco in São Paulo. Since her debut in musicals, Lissah has always played the young lady of the history and now she has to live the opposite. The play tells the story of three drag queens traveling from Sydney to a tourist town in the remote Australian desert to perform. In 2014, Li participated in the reality show This Artist I am. In the same year she travels to Brazil with the Disney in Concert, which mixes musical and show, interpreting the famous songs of classic films of Walt Disney. [3] In 2015, she joined the list of participants of the eighth season of reality show The Farm . In 2016 was released its first single Vai Chegar, which is part of the opening theme of the telenovela Sila of Rede Bandeirantes. [11]
In April 2007, Martins began a relationship with the singer Matheus Herriez, once a member of the group Br'oz. They married on May 20, 2009 at the Our Lady of Brazil Church in São Paulo. [12] The couple divorced in 2014 [13] but this was not made public until October 2015, when Lissah disclosed it during her participation in The Farm. [14] [15] In December 2015 she began to date model João Paulo Mantovani (JP) and in February 2017 the couple announced they were expecting their first child. [16] On June 14, 2017, by which time the couple had separated, she gave birth to a girl, Antonella. [17]
Title | Year | Album |
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"Vou Ser do Jeito Que eu Sou" [18] (feat. Zac Efron) | 2007 | High School Musical 2 |
"Vai Chegar" [19] | 2016 | Non-album single |
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"Promise (Til The End Of Time)" [20] (E.Motion feat. Lissah Martins and Tonanni) | 2011 | Non-album single |
Title | Year | Other artist (s) | Album |
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"Abra os Olhos" | 2007 | — | Bratz: O Filme |
"Bratitude" | Aline Wirley | ||
"Mentiras, Poesias e Flores" | 2009 | Matheus Herriez | Ser o que Sou [21] |
"Vejo Enfim a Luz Brilhar" | 2013 | Izaias Xavier | Enrolados |
"Lying" | 2014 | Shameless | Game On [22] |
"Run Away" | Tommy Love | Tommy Love [23] | |
"Um Dia de Domingo" | Daniel | Daniel 30 Anos: O Musical [24] | |
Title | Year | Director |
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"Vou Ser do Jeito Que eu Sou" | 2007 | Kenny Ortega [25] |
"Vai Chegar" | 2016 | Daniel Behrendt [26] |
Year | Production | Role |
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2007–08 | Miss Saigon [27] | Kim |
2009 | Beauty and the Beast [28] | Belle |
2010 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [29] | Emma |
2011–12 | The Phantom of the Opera [30] | Belinha |
2012–13 | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert [31] | Cyntia |
2014 | Disney in Concert [3] | Belle / Mulan / Ariel / Elsa |
2015 | Histórias do Brasil [32] | Beatriz |
Year | TV show | Role | Notes |
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2002 | Popstars | Contestant (Won) | Season 1 |
2002 | Rouge: A História | Presenter | |
2003 | Romeu e Julieta | Friend of Julieta | Year end special |
2013 | Fábrica de Estrelas | Herself | Episode: "The Return of the Rouge" |
2014 | Esse Artista Sou Eu | Contestant | Season 1 |
2015 | The Farm | Contestant | Season 8 |
2016 | Band Folia | Apresentadora [33] | |
2016 | Dance Se Puder | Sworn | Season 2 |
Year | Film | Character |
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2003 | Xuxa Abracadabra | Herself |
2005 | Eliana em O Segredo dos Golfinhos | Herself |
Br'oZ was a Brazilian boy band formed in the second season of the reality show Popstars, broadcast by SBT in 2003. They released two albums during their career as a band, and spawned two huge hits in Brazil, "Prometida" (2003) and "Vem Pra Minha Vida" (2004).
RGB Entertainment is a production company from Argentina. It was established in the year 2000.
Blá Blá Blá is the third studio album released by Brazilian girl group Rouge on June 16, 2004 by Columbia Records. The album is the first of the group like quartet, marking the absence of member Luciana Andrade. In this work, the Rouge bet in a more aggressive and mature pop, being considered the preferred album among the members. After having few to no writing credits on their previous two studio albums, in Blá Blá Blá brings the four members of the group writing two songs in partnership with Milton Guedes and Rick Bonadio, and Fantine and Karin have written a song by themselves; the repertoire also brings Bonadio's original compositions, alone or together with Fúlvio Márcio, Clio, Beto Paciello and Guedes. The album features versions of three songs previously released by other artists, plus four songs composed in English and the group's record company, Sony Music, brought the group to record with exclusivity.
"Blá Blá Blá" is a song by the Brazilian girl group pop Rouge, and the lead single from her third studio album of the same name. The song was written and produced by Rick Bonadio, and became the girls' first song without the vocals of Luciana Andrade, who left the group in February 2004. It was released by Columbia Records on May 4, 2004.
"Sem Você" is a song by the Brazilian girl group pop Rouge, from their fourth studio album, Blá Blá Blá (2004). The song was written in Spanish by Andrés Constantinidis and Carolina de La Muela, with the title "No Dejo de Sentir", and was translated and produced by Rick Bonadio. The song is a pop rock ballad, which talks about not being able to live without the loved one. The song released on August 2, 2004.
C'est La Vie is the second studio album by Brazilian girl group Rouge. It was first released by Columbia Records on May 4, 2003. The album is the successor to the band's debut album, Rouge (2002), which sold more than two million copies, having as main hit the song "Ragatanga". The album features zouk as the main style in the songs "Brilha La Luna" and "Vem Cair na Zueira", as well as international versions such as "Eu Quero Fugir" and "C'est La Vie".
Mil e Uma Noites is the fourth studio album of Brazilian pop girl group Rouge, released on May 30, 2005, by Sony BMG. The work is a mix of new tracks and a greatest hits compilation, including "Ragatanga", "Brilha La Luna" and "Blá Blá Blá". Previously unreleased songs were "Me Leva Contigo", "Mais Uma Da Lista", "Cidade Triste", "Onde Está O Amor?", "O Amor é Ilusão" and the lead single "Vem Habib ", and a bonus acoustic version of the hit "Um Anjo Veio Me Falar". The album sold more than 50,000 copies in Brazil.
Rouge is the self-titled debut studio album by Brazilian pop girl group Rouge, released on August 19, 2002 by Columbia Records in featuring with Sony BMG. Recorded during the show Popstars with the music production of Rick Bonadio, who signs 9 of the 14 compositions, the album counts on compositions of Milton Guedes, Dudu Falcão, Piska, besides having nine versions of international songs and the participation of trio KLB in one of the tracks. The album mixes hectic songs from pop and dance-pop, in songs that talk about fame, love, domination and the power of dreams.
"Não Dá pra Resistir" is a song by the Brazilian girl group Rouge, released on August 19, 2002 as the debut single from the band's debut studio album, self-titled Rouge (2002). Originally a song in English, titled "Irresistible", written by Kara DioGuardi, Frederik Thomander and Anders Wikstrom, it was adapted to Portuguese by Milton Guedes and produced by Rick Bonadio. The original version of the song was later sung by Nikki Cleary and released on her self-titled album, a year after the adapted song released in Brazil.
"Brilha la Luna" is a song by the Brazilian pop girl group Rouge, from their second studio album C'est La Vie (2003). The song was released by Columbia Records as the album's lead single on May 6, 2003. It was written and produced by Rick Bonadio, being a mix of dance-pop and zouk that is heavily influenced by Latin music. "Brilha la Luna" has verses in Spanish, and in many cases, Portuñol. The membrer Luciana Andrade sings lead on the verses and bridge with the other members singing only the high harmony on the pre-chorus and second chorus. After Andrade's departure the group, the verses sung by Luciana were sung by Karin Hils and Fantine Thó, respectively.
"Vem Habib (Wala Wala)" is a song by the Brazilian pop girl group Rouge, for the group's fourth studio album, Mil e Uma Noites (2005). It was written by and produced by Rick Bonadio. It takes inspiration from "arabic pop music", having a totally different rhythm from the previous songs of the group. Columbia Records released "Vem Habib (Wala Wala)" as the first single from the album on May 23, 2005. The music video of the single is spent in the desert, where they are prisoners of a sultan. The group also sang the song on the Mil e Uma Noites Tour (2005), Chá Rouge Tour (2017) and 15 Anos Tour (2018).
"Tudo Otra Vez" is a song by the Brazilian girl group Rouge, released as a promotional single on April 22, 2013. The song, composed by members of the group, Fantine Thó and Karin Hils, and produced by Rick Bonadio, was the result of a meeting with the producer for his reality show Fábrica de Estrelas, from which also was born "Tudo É Rouge".
Luciana de Andrade is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, presenter and actress. In 2002 she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2004, recording two of the four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La Vie (2003). In 2004 she left the band claiming a lack of identification with the musical style of the group that sold 6 million copies in all and became the most successful girl group of Brazil and one of the twenty that more sold in the world.
Fantine Rodrigues Thó is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, dancer and instructor. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La Vie (2003), Blá Blá Blá (2004) and Mil e Uma Noites (2005), selling in all 6 million copies and becoming the most successful girl group of Brazil and one of the twenty that more sold in the world. In 2006 formed the progressive rock band Banda Thó with his brother Jonathan and some friends, which did not give continuity at the end of the following year, when married and moved to Netherlands.
Bailando (transl. Dancing) is a song by the Brazilian girl group Rouge, released as the group's first return single on February 4, 2018, and is distributed by Sony Music. The song was recorded on the night of the 13th at dawn on November 14, 2017, and was composed and produced by Umberto Tavares and Jefferson Junior, with additions in the composition of the member Fantine Thó. "Bailando" is the first single from Rouge since 2005 and the first with its original line up since 2003.
Karin Pereira de Souza is a Brazilian actress, singer and songwriter. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La Vie (2003), Blá Blá Blá (2004) and Mil e Uma Noites (2005), selling in all 6 million copies and becoming the most successful girl group of Brazil and one of the twenty that more sold in the world.
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Any Gabrielly Rolim Soares is a Brazilian musician, actress, dancer, model and singer. Born in Guarulhos, São Paulo, she began dancing at a very young age and performed at some of the city's most renowned theaters while attending the São Paulo Municipal Ballet School. In 2013, she made her debut playing young Nala in the musical The Lion King. Her big break came in 2016 when she was chosen as the voice of Disney Princess Moana Waialiki on the Brazilian version of the animated film Moana. In addition to her voice acting work, Any Gabrielly also recorded a few songs for the film's soundtrack, including "Saber Quem Sou," the Portuguese version of the track "How Far I'll Go." Over the next few years, she achieved international fame by representing Brazil in the global pop group Now United, with whom she performed all over the world. Some of the group's biggest hits include the singles "Summer in the City" (2017) and "Paraná" (2019), as well as the musical Love, Love, Love (2021). In 2022 she left the group to focus on her solo career.