63 Facts About Xuxa

Xuxa has sold over 50 million copies of her records worldwide, which makes her the highest-selling Brazilian female singer.

Xuxa is of Italian and Polish descent by paternal side and of German, Swiss and Portuguese descent by maternal side.

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.

Xuxa spent her early years in her hometown Santa Rosa.

Xuxa started a career in television through an offer to host a children's program, Clube da Crianca in the newly created Rede Manchete which was the sixth broadcaster to have national reach in Brazil.

In Christmas 1986, Xuxa received her eighth platinum record, a prize awarded to every 250,000 copies sold.

Xuxa sold more than Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos that year.

Xuxa accumulated the highest-grossing of Brazilian cinema, with more than 37 million people watched her films.

Xuxa was chosen by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences of the United States to deliver the International Emmy Awards in the category of best children's program and present one of their songs in the awards party.

The Paradao da Xuxa emerged as an independent program after the success of the picture of the same name presented in Xou of Xuxa.

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.

In 1993, Xuxa hosted an English-language series in the United States titled Xuxa.

Xuxa was hospitalized for several days due to exhaustion, and decided to give up her international career.

Some elements of the Xou da Xuxa remained, others were modified or completely removed, but still present.

Planeta Xuxa was focused on the performances of musicians and bands.

In 2003, Xuxa was nominated again to Grammy for Xuxa So Para Baixinhos 3 and took the second trophy in the same category.

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.

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.

The 5th edition, Xuxa Circus, became a huge-selling success and was transformed into a show that dragged crowds into theaters.

In 2005, the Xuxa Festa, promoted a remix of old hits.

In 2012, Xuxa is again present in the Latin Grammy as the only Brazilian in the Best Children's Album category, with XSPB 11.

TV Xuxa returned to TV Globo grid on 10 May 2008, totally refurbished, aimed at the whole family.

In 2009 Xuxa released the film Xuxa em O Misterio de Feiurinha, telling what happens to the princesses after the "Happily Ever After".

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.

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.

Also in 2010, Xuxa was chosen as favourite Brazilian singer by the readers of the Argentine newspaper Clarin.

TV Xuxa finally came to an end on 25 January 2014, due to the health problems of the presenter.

In May 2014, after five years in Sony Music, Xuxa returned to Som Livre.

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.

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.

Recently, Xuxa announced the national launch of their new tour of shows, titled XuCha, and based on the traditional tea Cha da Alice.

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.

Xuxa even recorded songs in English, but was never officially released.

From 1989 to 1996, Xuxa had sold 18 million albums, a record in Latin American music sales.

Xuxa recorded about 915 songs, recorded 28 albums that together have sold over 55 million copies, and were awarded 400 gold records in Brazil.

The album, Xou da Xuxa 3, had more than 5,000,000 copies sold, making it the best-selling children's album in the world, according to the Guinness Book.

Xuxa was first in the list of artists with highest sales over the past ten years.

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.

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.

At the age of 16, Xuxa began to model professionally.

Years later, an affair with soccer player Pele boosted her profile and in 1982 Xuxa already was considered one of the most recognizable public figures in the country, endorsing everything from underwear to residential buildings.

Additionally, the company has represented other interests as well, and in 1993 Xuxa Producoes was responsible for bringing Michael Jackson's Dangerous World Tour to Brazil.

Xuxa was involved in the co-production of films by Renato Aragao, Angelica and Father Marcelo Rossi.

Until 1988, the companies of Xuxa were run by her parents and brothers Cirano, Bladimir, and Solange.

Also in 1990, Xuxa bought a site in Vargem Grande, Rio de Janeiro for US$2 million.

In 1990, Xuxa acquired an apartment of five million dollars in New York City, a property she still owns.

Xuxa took advantage of the opening of the Brazilian market to imported vehicles to found Shine Car, a concessionaire of imported luxury cars based in Rio de Janeiro.

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, and a tuition starting at $60.

Also in 1991 Xuxa ramped up the licensing of products featuring her brand name.

Xuxa bought five luxury apartments in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which earned her $200,000 in rent income.

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.

Xuxa made 12 advertising campaigns that year, earning $200,000 each.

In 1994, the death of Ayrton Senna contributed to Xuxa gradually diminishing her work rate.

In that same year the international press announced that Xuxa was concerned about having no private life.

In 2005, an 11-year-old girl, the daughter of a friend of Xuxa, died at Disneyland while she was lodging in Xuxa's house.

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.

In November 2010 Xuxa did not agree to an increase in rent of the building which the Shine Car company occupied and took the landlord to court, but lost the action, ultimately vacating the property.

The STJ ruled that Xuxa appeared naked on the station's show in 2008.

The images had been published by Playboy before Xuxa launched herself as a children's show host in the early 1980s.

In February 2015, Xuxa refused a proposed renewal with Globo, since without any new projects, her salary would be reduced to R$250,000 compared to the $1 million she used to get.

Xuxa has one daughter with actor Luciano Szafir, Sasha, who was born in 1998.

Xuxa dated Brazilian footballer Pele in the 1980s, and Formula One driver Ayrton Senna in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In 2012, Xuxa claimed that American singer Michael Jackson had once courted her, inviting her to dinner at Neverland Ranch.