Paula Fernandes is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian sertanejo

Música sertaneja

Música sertaneja or Sertanejo is a music style that had its origins in the countryside of Brazil in the 1920s .Sertanejo is currently the most popular music style in Brazil, arguably more popular than samba in most Brazilian states , even though samba is still quite popular in Rio de Janeiro...

 and country

Country music

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 singer.

Biography

Born in Sete Lagoas

Sete Lagoas

Sete Lagoas is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The municipal area is 537 km² while the population was 217,506 in 2007.-Location:...

, Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

, Paula Fernandes started singing when she was eight years-old, releasing her first album two years later. Her second album, named Voarei, was released in 1995, and was inspired by the Ana Raio e Zé Trovão telenovela. She went to the college to study Geography in Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...

 when she was 18 years-old, singing in bars during that time. She recorded one of the theme songs of Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

's telenovela América, named Ave Maria Natureza, releasing the album Canções do Vento Sul soon after that. Paula Fernandes was nominated as Best Popular Singer in the Prêmio Tim de Música Brasileira award for that album. The song Jeito do Mato, from her album Pássaro de Fogo was the theme music of the telenovela Paraíso, and her version of Ivete Sangalo

Ivete Sangalo

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's song Quando a Chuva Passar was the main theme music of the telenovela Escrito nas Estrelas. Paula Fernandes released her first DVD in October 2010, and participated in two Rede Globo special shows, which were the Roberto Carlos

Roberto Carlos (singer)

Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....

' end of the year show, broadcast on December 25, 2010, and Show da Virada, broadcast during the New Year's Day, on December 31, 2010. Her album, Paula Fernandes - Ao Vivo, released in 2011, placed in the 2011 top sellers albums.

Studio albums

Year	Album	Label	Sales
1993	Paula Fernandes	-	-
1995	Voarei	-	-
2005	Canções do Vento Sul	-	-
2006	Dust in the Wind Dust in the Wind "Dust in the Wind" is a song by American progressive rock band Kansas, first released on their 1977 album Point of Know Return.The song peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of April 22, 1978, making it Kansas' only top ten Billboard Hot 100 charting single...	-	+45,000
2008	Pássaro de Fogo	Universal Music	+150,000
2011	Paula Fernandes - Ao Vivo	Universal Music	+1,000,000

External links

Official website