Carla Aparecida Perez Soares da Silva (''née'' Soares; born November 16, 1977) is a Brazilian singer, dancer, television presenter and former actress. She reached fame in the mid-1990s after performing as the blonde dancer with '' axé'' group

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(''loira do Tchan'').

Biography

Carla Perez was born in

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, Bahia on November 16, 1977, to Carlos Soares and Ivone Perez; on her mother's side, she is of Spanish descent. She also has two brothers and two sisters. When she was 15 years old, she gave up on her '' baile de debutante'' to afford a model course. In 1995 she was invited to perform for newly founded '' axé'' group

, what launched her into nationwide fame and later on led her to pose naked five times for ''

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''. Perez parted ways with É o Tchan! in 1998 to pursue personal projects, such as the one of being an actress; in the same year she starred alongside

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(her boyfriend at the time), Perry Salles,

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and Lucci Ferreira in the semi-fictionalized biographical film '' Cinderela Baiana'', directed by Conrado Sanchez. It was a critical and commercial failure, and Perez announced many years after the film's release that she had disowned it. Her final acting role was a cameo in the 1999 film ''

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''. Around the same time she hosted the variety shows ''

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'' (from 1998 to 1999) and '' Canta e Dança, Minha Gente'' (from 1999 to 2001), both broadcast by

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. Beginning in 2000, when she released her first album, ''Algodão-Doce'', through Cinema Music, and founded the

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of the same name, Perez began to dedicate herself for children. She released two further albums, ''Todos Iguais'' and ''Eletro Kids'', in 2005 and 2007 respectively. From 2003 to 2008 she covered the Bahian Carnaval for

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. More recently, from 2012 to 2017, she hosted the children's show ''Clube da Alegria'', broadcast by TV Aratu in Bahia.

Personal life

Perez had a short-lived relationship with

Só Pra Contrariar Só Pra Contrariar (translates to Just (only) to be contrary) is a Brazilian musical group formed in 1989. Their 1997 album ''Só Pra Contrariar'' is one of the best selling albums in Brazil, selling more than three million copies. The band is k ...

frontman

in the late 1990s. In 2000 she met Harmonia do Samba vocalist Manuel Alexandre Oliveira da Silva (better known as Xanddy), and they married the following year. The couple has two children: Camilly Victória (born 2001) and Victor Alexandre (born 2003). From early 2016 until late 2017 they lived in Orlando, Florida. Perez is an Evangelical Christian.

Filmography

Television

Film

Discography

References

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Perez, Carla 1977 births Living people Brazilian female dancers Brazilian film actresses 20th-century Brazilian actresses 20th-century Brazilian women singers 20th-century Brazilian singers 21st-century Brazilian women singers 21st-century Brazilian singers Brazilian people of Spanish descent Brazilian evangelicals Actors from Salvador, Bahia Musicians from Salvador, Bahia Brazilian women television presenters