Xuxa became a national superstar when she moved to TV Globo in 1986 for the Xou da Xuxa.
62 Facts About Xuxa
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Over her 30-year career, Xuxa has sold over 50 million copies of her records worldwide, which makes her the highest-selling Brazilian female singer.
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Xuxa is of Italian and Polish descent by paternal side and of German, Swiss, Dutch and Portuguese descent by maternal side.
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Xuxa opted to save his wife, and prayed to Our Lady of Graces, promising to name his daughter after the Blessed Virgin Mary if all went well.
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Xuxa spent her early years in her hometown Santa Rosa.
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In Christmas 1986, Xuxa received her eighth platinum record, a prize awarded to every 250,000 copies sold.
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Xuxa sold more than Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos that year.
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The Paradao da Xuxa emerged as an independent program after the success of the picture of the same name presented in Xou of Xuxa.
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Xuxa widened her appeal among Spanish-speaking audiences when she recorded a program in Argentina, called El Show de Xuxa.
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In 1992, taping programs in Brazil and Argentina, Xuxa was invited to hosted the program Xuxa Park, in Spain.
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Billboard magazine published in September 1992, that the album Xuxa 2 was at the top of the Spanish charts, and appeared in position 77 of the 100 most sold albums in the world.
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In 1993, Xuxa hosted an English-language series in the United States titled Xuxa.
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Xuxa was hospitalized for several days due to exhaustion, and decided to give up her international career.
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Planeta Xuxa was focused on the performances of musicians and bands.
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In 2003, Xuxa was nominated again to Grammy for Xuxa So Para Baixinhos 3 and took the second trophy in the same category.
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Mundo de Xuxa, located in Sao Paulo, in an area of 12,000 square meters, was the largest indoor amusement park in Latin America and has more than 18 attractions.
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The Mundo do Xuxa is part of the group of 3 amusement parks that most invoice in Brazil, together the 3 parks made about R$220 million per year.
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The 5th edition, Xuxa Circus, became a huge-selling success and was transformed into a show that dragged crowds into theaters.
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In 2005, the Xuxa Festa, promoted a remix of old hits.
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In 2012, Xuxa is again present in the Latin Grammy as the only Brazilian in the Best Children's Album category, with XSPB 11.
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TV Xuxa returned to TV Globo grid on 10 May 2008, totally refurbished, aimed at the whole family.
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In 2009 Xuxa released the film Xuxa em O Misterio de Feiurinha, telling what happens to the princesses after the "Happily Ever After".
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Xuxa released the 9th title of the Xuxa So Para Baixinhos series, titled Natal Magico and in 2010 the tenth edition of XSPB, entitled Baixinhos, Bichinhos e Mais, the album sold, in one month, the amount necessary to become the best-selling DVD of 2010 in Brazil.
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In October 2010 Xuxa gave an interview explaining its break with "Free Sound" the presenter claimed that her then record company, was providing a tight budget for the size of its projects.
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Also in 2010, Xuxa was chosen as favourite Brazilian singer by the readers of the Argentine newspaper Clarin.
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TV Xuxa finally came to an end on 25 January 2014, due to the health problems of the presenter.
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In May 2014, after five years in Sony Music, Xuxa returned to Som Livre.
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On 5 March 2015, after 29 years with TV Globo and off air for over a year with the end of TV Xuxa, Xuxa signed on with Rede Record.
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On 3 April 2017, Xuxa debuted the program Dancing Brasil, a Brazilian version of the American program Dancing with the Stars, produced by Endemol Shine and shown by RecordTV.
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Recently, Xuxa announced the national launch of their new tour of shows, titled XuCha, and based on the traditional tea Cha da Alice.
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On 6 February 2019, Xuxa debuted the program The Four Brasil, a Brazilian version of the American program The Four, produced by the Endemol Shine Group and shown by RecordTV.
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In 1986, the album Xou da Xuxa, sold over two million copies, breaking the South American record for sales, earning eight platinum awards.
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From 1989 to 1996, Xuxa had sold 18 million albums, a record in Latin American music sales.
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Xuxa recorded about 915 songs, recorded 28 albums that together have sold over 45 million copies, and were awarded 400 gold records in Brazil.
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The album, Xou da Xuxa 3, had more than 3,216,000 copies sold, making it the best-selling children's album, according to the Guinness Book.
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Xuxa was first in the list of artists with highest sales over the past ten years.
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In September 2011, Colombian singer, Shakira, and Xuxa joined forces through their respective charitable foundations to aid children younger than six years old who live in Brazil's poorest communities.
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On 4 June 2014, Xuxa was present when the Senate of Brazil passed the Lei da Palmada that prohibits the use of violence in the education of children and adolescents, which had been adopted by the Commission on Human Rights of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Years later, the affair with soccer player Pele boosted her profile and in 1982 Xuxa already was considered one of the main publicity figures of the country, announcing from underwear to residential buildings.
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However, in 1993 Xuxa Producoes was responsible for the coming of the Dangerous World Tour, from Michael Jackson to Brazil and has performed in other segments without the presence of Xuxa, as the co-production of films by Renato Aragao, Angelica and Father Marcelo Rossi.
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At the age of 20, in 1983, Xuxa was invited to present the Clube da Crianca in the extinct TV Manchete.
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However, the agency made her choose between career photos and walkways as a model or TV and Xuxa opted for the television show.
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Until 1988, the companies of Xuxa were run by her father, retired soldier Luis Floriano Meneghel, mother, Alda, and brothers Cirano, Bladimir and Solange.
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Also in the year 1990, Xuxa bought a site in Vargem Grande, in Rio de Janeiro for two million dollars.
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Still in 1990 Xuxa acquired an apartment of five million dollars in New York, that still forms part of the artist's patrimony and took advantage of the opening of the Brazilian market to imported vehicles to found the Shine Car, concessionaire of imported luxury cars based in Rio de Janeiro.
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Xuxa launched the Xuxa Meneghel Models Course in Rio de Janeiro, with a duration of seven months and a load of six hours a week, tuition starting from $60.
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Xuxa bought five luxury apartments in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which earned $200,000 in rent.
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In 1992 Xuxa signed a contract with the Spanish television network Telecinco for 15 episodes of the Xuxa Park program, receiving $240,000 per episode.
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Xuxa made 12 advertising campaigns a year, earning $200,000 each.
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In 1994, the death of Ayrton Senna contributed to Xuxa diminishing her work rate gradually.
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In that same year the international press announced that Xuxa is concerned about having little private life.
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In 2005, an 11-year-old girl, daughter of friends of Xuxa, passed away in the parks of Disney while she was lodged in the house of Xuxa.
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In 2007, when she left to live in Casa Rosa, Xuxa moved to a residence that had been built in the Malibu Condominium in Barra da Tijuca.
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In 2009, Lar's Empreendimentos of Xuxa was ordered to pay an indemnity of R$50,000 for moral and material damages in legal proceedings.
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In November 2010 Xuxa did not agree to the increase in rent of the building which the Shine Car company occupied and took the company to court, but lost the action, leaving the property and extinguishing Shine Car in January 2011.
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The STJ ruled that Xuxa appeared naked on the station's show in 2008.
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The images had been published by Playboy before Xuxa launched herself as a children's show host in the early 1980s.
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In February 2015, Xuxa refused a proposal of renewal with Globo TV, since its salary would happen to be 1 million dollars monthly, that received from 2002, to R$250,000, without next projects to return to present a program.
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Xuxa has one daughter with actor Luciano Szafir, Sasha, who was born in 1998.
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Xuxa dated Brazilian football legend Pele in the 1980s, and later Formula 1 legend, Ayrton Senna.
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Xuxa reported in 2012 that reclusive singer Michael Jackson had once courted her, inviting her to dinner at Neverland Ranch and his manager asked whether she would consider bearing his children.
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Xuxa is in a relationship with actor and singer Junno Andrade pt.