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Xuxa
Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel is a Brazilian TV host, actress, singer, and businesswoman. Nicknamed "The Queen of Children", Xuxa built the largest Latin and South American children's entertainment empire. In the early 1990s, she presented television programs in Brazil, Argentina, Spain and the United States simultaneously, reaching around 20 million viewers daily. According to different sources, t…
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business · Brazilian presenter, actress, singer and former model (born 1963) · television presenter · film producer · singer · businessperson · model · choreographer · film actor · television actor · songwriter · recording artist · also Xuxa, Xuxa Meneghel, Maria da Graça Meneghel
Born 27 March 1963 · Q275939
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2026· 11 entries
Published video “Xuxa - Xuxa Só para Baixinhos 6 (XSPB 6) - Festa”.
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Published video “Xuxa - Xuxa Só para Baixinhos 7 (XSPB 7)”.
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Published video “Xuxa - Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos (XSPB 9) - Natal Mágico”.
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Published video “Xuxa - Xuxa Só para Baixinhos 8 (XSPB 8)”.
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Published video “Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 10 (XSPB 10) - Baixinhos, Bichinhos e +”.
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Published video “Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 12 (XSPB 12) - É Pra Dançar”.
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Published video “Xuxa - Planeta Terra (Xuxa Park Espanha)”.
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Published video “Xuxa Só para Baixinhos 13 (XSPB 13) - Abc do XSPB”.
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Published video “Xuxa - Chindolele (Clipe Inédito)”.
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Published video “Xuxa - Festa da Xuxa - Grandes Sucessos (Vídeo Completo)”.
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2025· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2025).
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The record label Som Livre, with which the artist recorded almost all of her albums, gave her an award for her more than 28 million copies sold only in Brazil, during her career, and 10 billion streams to date
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2023· 1 entry
Globoplay released a documentary about her called "Xuxa, o Documentário"
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 13”.
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2014· 1 entry
And expected to be released in September 2016, XPSB 13 earned Xuxa a Latin Grammy nomination, but because it was released after the deadline, it was disqualified by the Latin Recording Academy
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 12”.
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Released album “Coleção Xou da Xuxa”.
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Xuxa obtained Italian citizenship by jus sanguinis
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2012· 2 entries
The Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPF) released the list of the best-selling DVDs in the country
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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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2011· 3 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 11”.
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Replacing the Session of Saturday, that suffered to leave the transmitter in the isolated leadership
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XSPB Volume 1–8 (sixth place) and XSPB 11 (ninth)
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 10”.
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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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Xuxa was chosen as favourite Brazilian singer by the readers of the Argentine newspaper Clarín
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 9”.
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Xuxa released the film Xuxa em O Mistério de Feiurinha, telling what happens to the princesses after the "Happily Ever After"
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 8”.
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Part of the property caught fire while Xuxa, Sasha and Luciano Szafir were inside
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 7”.
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With the concern of providing a more normal social life for her daughter Sasha, Xuxa put the site up for sale for $8 million, and sold it in 2010
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Xuxa 20 anos”.
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2005· 5 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 6”.
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The Xuxa audiovisual Solamente para Bajitos
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An 11-year-old girl, the daughter of a friend of Xuxa, died at Disneyland while she was lodging in Xuxa's house
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The Xuxa Festa, promoted a remix of old hits
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Released album “Xuxa Solamente Para Bajitos”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 5”.
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For the third consecutive time, she competed with the video Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 4, in the same category
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2003· 16 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 4”.
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Awarded Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Children's Album (2003).
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“Sobre o seu relacionamento com Ayrton Senna.”
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“Sobre a sua filha de dois anos”
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“Já pedi muito, todo Natal eu peço, e ninguém me dá. Quero uma ilha. Mas não uma ilhazinha com mato. Quero com areia, água quente, golfinho nadando, segurança. Não sou de pedir muito (risos).”
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“Sasha, em resposta à mãe, segundo relato da própria Xuxa no Domingão do Faustão”
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“satisfeita com o impacto causado pelos atributos turbinados que exibiu no desfile do MorumbiFashion”
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“Na época em que teria total autonomia na Rede Globo para comandar seu novo programa”
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Xuxa was nominated again to Grammy for Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 3, and took the second trophy in the same category
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“Xuxa, sobre a família do pai de sua filha”
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“Daqui a dez anos, estarei com um cara apaixonadérrimo por mim, me enchendo de carinho, amor e chocolates”
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“Xuxa, contando seu encontro com o sobrenatural”
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“Não seria vilã no cinema jamais. Como não sou atriz, não quero desafios para a carreira.”
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“Sobre seu plano de engravidar.”
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“Xuxa, apresentadora de TV, sobre o beijo que trocou com Luigi Baricelli na gravação de seu novo filme”
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“Podem me chamar de louca, mas eu vi duendes em meu quarto.”
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2002· 5 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 3”.
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Awarded Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Children's Album (2002).
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Veja magazine named Xuxa the richest artist in Brazil, with an estimated net worth of $250 million
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Xuxa acquired four suites for R$13 million in São Conrado, in Rio de Janeiro
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Xuxa had $250 million in equity referring only to real estate
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos 2”.
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Designed the Só Para Baixinhos audiovisual and the CD and DVD set
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Xuxa só para baixinhos”.
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Acquired a million-dollar home in Celebration, Florida, near Walt Disney World
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Released album “Pérolas: Xuxa”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Xuxa 2000”.
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Released album “El Mundo Es De Los Dos”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Só faltava você”.
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “Boas notícias”.
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Released album “Arraiá da Xuxa”.
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Released album “Xuxa Hits Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Xuxa Hits Vol. 1”.
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1996· 5 entries
Released album “Xuxa 10 anos”.
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Released album “Tô de bem com a vida”.
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Released album “Dance”.
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Founded Lar's Empreendimentos, an entity responsible for real estate investments and the creation of the O Mundo da Xuxa park in 2003
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Realized the tour Tô de Bem com a Vida, with more than 45 concerts and a cache of $350,000
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Luz no meu caminho”.
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1994· 3 entries
The death of Ayrton Senna also contributed to Xuxa gradually diminishing her work rate
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Released album “El Pequeño Mundo”.
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Released album “Sexto sentido”.
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1993· 5 entries
Released album “Todos sus éxitos”.
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Xuxa hosted an English-language series in the United States titled Xuxa (which was produced by MTM Enterprises)
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Xuxa Produções was responsible for bringing Michael Jackson's Dangerous World Tour to Brazil
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Premiered the Xuxa program in the United States, in English
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Was produced independently in Buenos Aires and was sold to El Trece
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1992· 7 entries
Released album “Xuxa 3”.
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Released album “Xou da Xuxa sete”.
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Taping programs in Brazil and Argentina, Xuxa was invited to host the program Xuxa Park in Spain
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People magazine chose Xuxa as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world
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Resulting in her return to the list of "40 celebrities who grew richer in the last year" by Forbes in 1993, this time in 28th place
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That "more than 20 million Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking children watched El Show de Xuxa in 16 countries of Latin America every day, as well as Univision in the United States
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The Los Angeles Times said that Xuxa was "probably better known to most Latin American pre-adolescents than Michael Jackson
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “Xou da Xuxa seis”.
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Xuxa appeared in 37th place for Forbes among the 40 richest celebrities of that year, with a turnover of $19 million
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Xuxa ramped up the licensing of products featuring her brand name
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Released album “Xuxa 2”.
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1990· 7 entries
Released album “Xuxa 5”.
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Xuxa bought a site in Vargem Grande, Rio de Janeiro for US$2 million
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Resulting in her 37th appearance on Forbes' list of "Top 40 Most Enlightened Celebrities" in 1991, the first Latin American to appear on the list
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Reached 12 million copies, and its success in the Hispanic market, where it reached 300,000 copies with their first album in Spanish
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Xuxa acquired an apartment of five million dollars in New York City, a property she still owns
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Xuxa founded the Xuxa International Corporation, based in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven, which was responsible for collecting royalties from Xuxa's international enterprises
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The film Lua de Cristal, Xuxa's biggest box office hit, sold 4,178 million tickets and ranked 21st in the ranking of most-watched national films from 1970 to 2011 according to Ancine (Agência Nacional do Cinema)
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “4º xou da Xuxa”.
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Xuxa already shared with Hebe Camargo the title of highest-paid host of Latin America, receiving US$1
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Bought the three million square meter "MG Meneghel" farm in Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro; the farm also had 50 mango trees and 200 dairy cattle
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Released album “Xuxa”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Xou da Xuxa 3”.
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1987· 5 entries
Released album “Karaokê da Xuxa”.
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Released album “Xegundo xou da Xuxa”.
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Awarded Troféu Imprensa for Xou da Xuxa (1987).
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Founded "Beijinho Beijinho Produções", responsible for the co-production of television programs and albums
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The French newspaper Libération included Xuxa in the list of 10 women of prominence on the planet, next to the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher
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1986· 3 entries
Released album “Xou da Xuxa”.
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The album Xou da Xuxa sold over 2
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Ended up accepting one made by Rede Globo de Televisão to present a new children's program that would bear her name
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “Xuxa e seus amigos”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Clube da criança”.
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1982· 1 entry
Xuxa founded her first company, Xuxa Produções, a legal entity that takes care of the Xuxa brand and holds, exclusively, the rights to commercialize the use of the brand and image of the artist, both nationally and inter
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-03-27.
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