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| Birth Name(s) : Maria da Graa Meneghel |
Date of Birth: March 27, 1963 |
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Xuxa (pronounced shoo-shah - IPA -, born Maria da Graça Meneghel, March 27, 1963, Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian Grammy Awards Winner, television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Xuxa is of German, Austrian, Italian, and Polish descent.
Os Trapalhões were the biggest comedy group in Brazil and their show was a big hit with children and adults. Their movies were some of the biggest hits of Brazilian cinema. In 1983, Xuxa had a minor role in the comedy group's movie Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz, a spoof of The Wizard of Oz. She also had roles in two more Os Trapalhões movies: Os Trapalhões e a Arca de Noé (1984) and Os Trapalhões e o Reino da Fantasia (1985).
In 1979 Xuxa began a new career as a children's show presenter at Manchete. This occurred the same year she was invited to her first starring role in a movie with Os Trapalhões. Some newspaper reviewers wryly reported that her chancy (racy?) wardrobe made her show at Manchete more appropriate to at-home fathers than to children.
Xuxa Park (Brazil) - (The Brazilian Xuxa Park had no relation to the Spanish version) Aired from 1994 to 2001 on Saturday mornings and was a modern version of Xou da Xuxa. It was cancelled after several children were injured in an on-set fire. After the incident Xuxa became depressed and didn't appear in the media for several months.
Planeta Xuxa - The show was a big hit and was shown on Sunday afternoons with musical guests. It ran concurrently with Xuxa Park. The most popular segment was 'Intimacy' where Xuxa would interview different celebrities. The show went on hiatus after the fire on Xuxa Park; it came back and was later canceled due to Xuxa's desire to work with children once more.
Xuxa no Mundo da Imaginação (Xuxa in the World of Imagination) - This show arose from Xuxa's desire to return to produce children's programming. It premiered in 2002 and aired weekday mornings. It was the lowest-rated Xuxa show, highlighting the Globo morning block's ratings loss to the SBT morning block for the first time in years.
Controversy surrounding her Spanish version of the song "Danza de Xuxa", that when played backwards contained the message "the Devil is magnificent", helped fuel her fame. But she denied having anything to do with the production of the Spanish version.
Ele é o Txutxucão - Wags Loves To Shake Shake - M. Cook / J. Fatt / A. Field / G. Page / Ed. Wiggle Tunes
Between 1991 and 1993, Xuxa became very popular in the whole of Latin America, widening her appeal among Spanish-speaking audiences, when she recorded a program in Argentina, Show de Xuxa, which was also popular when broadcast in Chile, Mexico and 16 other Latin American countries. The first two seasons of the show, the most populars, were produced by Argentine TV channel Telefé while the third one, in 1993, was produced independently and then sold for broadcast to Canal 13. Her las Spanish speaking show aired in Latin America on December 31st 1993.
In 1993 Xuxa hosted an English language series in the United States, Xuxa, but it did not achieve the popularity she had enjoyed throughout Latin America and Spain. It was initially broadcast by 124 stations across the country. The shows were produced on Sound Stage 36 at CBS Television City in Los Angeles. 65 episodes were taped for the first season of the show. Taping of the episodes was done in a 5-week period in the summer of 1993. The shows were broadcast Monday through Friday, generally in the early morning or mid-afternoon. All 65 episodes were broadcast during the initial 13 weeks before there was a repeat. Helping Xuxa on the show were the Pixies (three U.S. "Paquitas" plus one Brazilian Paquita), the Mellizas (uncredited), Jelly, Jam, and ten "child wranglers" for the 150 kids on set. Starting September 1994, Xuxa began airing on The Family Channel cable network, at 8:00am ET/PT on all stations affiliated to The Family Network. They reprised original episodes on a new children's block until February 19, 1996 when Xuxa stopped airing on The Family Channel.
In 2001, she did Xuxa e os Duendes. Since then, she has released a new movie every year. Xuxa e os Duendes 2 in 2002, Xuxa Abracadabra in 2003, and Xuxa e o Mistério da Cidade Perdida in 2004. Her first animated movie Xuxinha e Guto: Contra os Monstros do Espaço, released in 2005, was comercial and critical flop. In her 2006 movie, "Xuxa Gêmeas", she played twins, one evil and one good. The movie featured the singer Ivete Sangalo and was a "come back" of Xuxa in the cinema. The movie had more than 1 million viewers.
In 2003 she made another fantasy movie, Xuxa em Abracadabra, followed by Xuxa e o Tesouro da Cidade Perdida (Xuxa and the Treasure of the Lost City) in 2004. As of 2005, Xuxa is about to release her first animated movie.
Her third album is the best-selling album in Brazilian history, selling almost 4 million copies. The album included the hit "Ilarie", which went to Number 1 across Latin America and was the bestselling single and most-played song on the radio in 1989. Xuxa's biggest singles were during her Xou da Xuxa era, the biggest of them all being "Ilariê", but she was also successful with Lua de Cristal; Tindolelê; Brincar de Índio and Arco-Íris.The Disneyesque monument to Xuxa in downtown Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul - the city is Xuxa's birthplace |
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