10 Facts About Adriana Calcanhotto

Adriana da Cunha Calcanhotto was born on 3 October 1965 and is a Brazilian singer-songwriter.

Adriana Calcanhotto began her professional career in 1984 and released her first studio album in 1990.

In 1994, Adriana Calcanhotto, sporting a new look released A Fabrica do Poema, considered by many to be her most poetic album.

Adriana Calcanhotto collaborated with lyricists like Waly Salomao and Antonio Cicero and included the hits "Metade" and "Inverno".

At the turn of the millennium, Adriana Calcanhotto experienced the peak of her career with the release of the album Publico in 2000.

Adriana Calcanhotto Partimpim released her self-titled "debut" in 2004, an album of covers featuring essentially traditional children's songs, but which included familiar pop songs made to resemble children's songs.

Adriana Calcanhotto toured Brazil to promote the record, as well as touring Europe, Japan and the United States.

Adriana Calcanhotto has chronicled her adventures on tour in the book Saga Lusa, in which she shares her memoirs of the Portuguese leg of her most recent tour.

On October 23,2009, Adriana Calcanhotto performed in front of an adoring crowd at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada in a free performance presented by the Embassy of Brazil.

Since 2015, Adriana Calcanhotto had joined Universidade de Coimbra as a university ambassador, acting as visiting lecturer on song composition courses and as an artist-in-residence.