Xuxa Meneghel est une Actrice Brésil née le 27 mars 1963 à Santa Rosa (Bresil)
Xuxa Meneghel
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Nom de naissance Maria da Graça MeneghelNationalité BresilNaissance 27 mars 1963 (61 ans) à Santa Rosa (
Bresil)
Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel ([mɐˈɾiɐ ða ˈgɾasɐ ˈʃuʃɐ mẽneˈgɛw]; born March 27, 1963), commonly known as Xuxa (/ˈʃuːʃə/ SHOO-shə; [ˈʃuʃɐ]), is a Brazilian television presenter, film actress, singer and businesswoman. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, English, and Spanish worldwide. She is a two-time winner of the Latin Grammy for Best Children's Album, and is also known for her epithet, "Queen of the Shorties".
Xuxa was the first Brazilian to appear on Forbes Magazine's list of richest artists in 1991, taking 37th place with an annual gross income of US$19 million.
Over her 30-year career, Xuxa Meneghel has sold over 40 million copies of records worldwide, which makes her the second-highest selling Brazilian female singer after Rita Lee. Her net worth was estimated at US$100 million in the early 1990s. As of 2015 she continues to be among Brazil's most prominent celebrities. Also successful as a businesswoman, she has the highest net worth of any Brazilian female entertainer, estimated at US$350 million. Biographie
Birth and family
Maria da Graça Meneghel was born in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul. On being told that both mother and child were at risk during the birth, her father, Luiz Floriano Meneghel, opted to save his wife, Alda Meneghel (née Alda Flores da Rocha), and prayed to St. Mary of Graces, promising to name her after a saint if all went well.
However, though she was originally named after Saint Mary of Graces, the youngest member of the Meneghel family received the name by which she came to be known from her brother Bladimir. When their mother arrived home, she said to him: "Look at the baby that I bought to play with you." To this, he replied: "I know, it's my Xuxa." It was not till 1988 that the presenter was officially called Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel.
Xuxa is of Italian descent of the town of Imer, in the Autonomous Province of Trento. Her great-grandfather emigrated to Brazil at the end of the Nineteenth Century. In 2013 she had her Italian nationality recognized.
Xuxa spent her early years in Santa Rosa until the age of seven, when she and her family moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she lived in a Bento Ribeiro neighborhood, in the suburbs.
Beginning of fame
Xuxa was discovered by the publishing company Bloch Editores, and she appeared on the cover of one of their magazines, Carinho. At the age of 15 she started her career in modeling. In 1980, she made the cover of over 80 magazines, and later posed for several others, including a nude shoot for the Playboy cover in the December 1982 issue, which was reissued in Argentina in 1991. At that time, Xuxa was dating the former player Pelé, which gave her visibility in the media.In 1984, thanks to the frequent exposure next to the former player, Xuxa was hired as a model in the US by Ford Models.
Maternity
On July 28, 1998 Xuxa gave birth to Sasha Meneghel Szafir, a daughter she had with the businessman and actor Luciano Szafir. On the day of her birth the main television news in Brazil, the Jornal Nacional of Rede Globo, highlighted her birth to a matter of 10 minutes.
Tribute at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí
Xuxa was honored by the Rio Carnival samba school SERES Unidos do Cabuçu 1992 and GRES Caprichosos de Pilares. Had Pillars plots as Xuxa, Reality Dream Turns on the X or Cabuçu in 1992 and Xuxa and His Magic Kingdom in Imagination Carnival in 2004 .
Had as plots Xuxa, a Realidade Vira Sonho no Xou da Cabuçu in 1992 and Xuxa e Seu Reino Encantado no Carnaval da Imaginação in 2004. In this parade, the school showed the career of the presenter. A very large number of fans not gostoram of Xuxa positioning during the parade. Due to the judgment, the school had to speed up the harmony and its evolution, so. The school was ranked 12th in the 2004 Carnival.
In 2011 GRCESM Innocentes da Caprichosos, reissued the samba of Caprichosos 2004: "Xuxa e seu reino encantado no carnaval da imaginação."
Residences
Xuxa currently lives in a luxury condominium in Brazil, Malibu Condo, located in Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro. The value of her mansion is estimated at R$15 million. Xuxa also has a ranch in Rio de Janeiro known as "Casa Rosa" with 89 thousand square meters, an apartment in Barra da Tijuca, and a farm in Rio Bonito, inside the RJ.
In addition to her residences in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Xuxa has an island in Fortaleza, Ceará, where she usually spends her holidays, an apartment in New York City, and a house in Orlando, Florida, located in the vicinity of Walt Disney World.
Recently, Xuxa bought a house in East Beach, located in Angra dos Reis, near where businessman Eike Batista has a property.
Social activism
In 1987, Xuxa became involved in a children's campaign against polio. Subsequently, more than 90% of Brazil's infant population was vaccinated. Two years into the campaign, the disease was eliminated and Xuxa received a medal of honor from the then president of Brazil, José Sarney.
Xuxa has also participated in campaigns against smoking, was a spokesperson for the campaign against breast cancer, and was also the organizer of a public parade of protest in Rio, asking for peace in the city. The growing need to care for young children led her to set up the Xuxa Meneghel Foundation on October 12, 1989.
Xuxa met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in June 2007 to launch (in Brasilia) a nationwide campaign called Não Bata, Eduque! (Don’t spank, Educate!).
Xuxa was chosen to represent Brazil on the Live Earth show and become the cause's spokeswoman in Brazil. The show took place in seven countries simultaneously on July 7, 2007, and it was a wakeup call for the effects of climate change.
In March 2008, Xuxa launched the campaign Uso Responsável da Internet (Responsible Internet Use) at the Providencia ghetto in Rio de Janeiro. The initiative was a partnership with the Xuxa Meneghel Foundation. In the same year, she received a medal of honor at ECO 2008 held in Brasilia, for the social and environmental work carried out by the Xuxa Meneghel Foundation. She also took on the cause to fight against child prostitution. That November, Xuxa received a prize from Prince Albert of Monaco for her work at the Xuxa Meneghel Foundation. This prize is the highest honor awarded to personalities for their work on social issues.
In August 2010, Xuxa was invited by the president of SESI, Jair Meneguelli, to be godmother to a nationwide campaign combating child prostitution called Carinho de Verdade.
In September 2011, Colombian singer Shakira and Xuxa have joined forces through their respective charitable foundations to aid children younger than six years old who live in Brazil’s poorest communities. The two artists, together with Brazilian government officials, signed an accord in Rio de Janeiro, for a program of cooperation that in its first four years plans to provide access to better education to kids from 100 schools in Brazil.
Xuxa is the godmother and the poster girl of campaign "Tri-national to Combat Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents", the initiative aims to encourage people to report cases of exploitation and abuse of minors living on the border between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. The campaign integrates the actions taken to combat violence against children and adolescents since May 2013. The initiative brings together Itaipu Dam, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Municipal Tourism Council, Childhood and Youth, Ministry of Labor and Employment and entities of Paraguay and Argentina who work in the same area.
In May 2014, President Dilma Rousseff signed a law that makes the heinous crime of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. On June 4, 2014 Xuxa, accompanied in plenary of the Senate of Brazil, approval of the Lei da Palmada (PLC 58/2014), which had been adopted at the Commission on Human Rights of the Chamber of Deputies. When asked about the criticism that some parents make about the proposal, especially on how they will educate their children, Xuxa said that they can educate anyway, but without violence: "We have to show that people can and should educate without violence". Xuxa said the project should be treated as Lei Menino Bernardo, not Lei da Palmada.
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