{"id":167199,"date":"2022-12-24T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-anitta-the-girl-from-rio-went-global-npr\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T17:14:13","slug":"how-anitta-the-girl-from-rio-went-global-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-anitta-the-girl-from-rio-went-global-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"How Anitta, the ‘Girl from Rio,’ went global : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil \u2014 Brazilian singer Anitta calls herself the “Girl from Rio.” Her blend of local funk and pop is taking her far beyond her hometown, recently grabbing her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. She’s one of the most popular music artists to come out of Brazil in decades.<\/p>\n

This year Anitta dropped her fifth studio album, Versions of Me<\/em>, singing in her native Portuguese, as well as Spanish and English. the single “Envolver<\/em>,” along with its hip-grinding video, became a hit on social media and topped Spotify’s global daily chart \u2014 a first for a solo Latin female artist.<\/p>\n

She has also been collaborating with superstars, from Madonna to Snoop Dogg and J Balvin. And she is donning covers of magazines from international versions of Vogue<\/em> <\/em>to The Wall Street Journal<\/em>which named her Music Innovator of 2022.<\/p>\n

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Anitta sat down with NPR at her home in one of west Rio de Janeiro’s exclusive gated communities earlier this month.<\/p>\n

She said she doesn’t get hung up on numbers and is just enjoying it all. She knew early on in her career that to go global she couldn’t sing solely in Portuguese.<\/p>\n