Lauana Prado

Mayara Lauana Pereira e Vieira do Prado (born 25 May 1989) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, record producer and arranger.

At the start of her career, she took part in several TV talent shows, including The Voice Brasil, in which she was a semi-finalist under the stage name Mayara Prado. She later signed with Sony Music Brasil and released an EP and an album. In 2016, she changed her stage name to Lauana Prado and achieved her national breakthrough two years later with the EP ''Lauana Prado'', which featured the hit "Cobaia". In the following years, she released albums such as ''Livre'' (2020), ''Natural'' (2022) and ''Ao Vivo em Brasília'' (2023), as well as a tour of re-recordings, which spawned albums such as ''Raiz'' (2022) and ''Raiz Goiânia'' (2023).

Prado is known as one of the main names in the feminejo movement and for her musical approach, which mixes genres such as sertanejo, rock and reggae, as well as more positive lyrics. She has also worked as a songwriter, with songs recorded by sertanejo artists such as Roberta Miranda, Edson & Hudson and Rionegro & Solimões.

Early life and education

Prado was born in Goiânia and grew up in the municipality of Araguaína, in Tocantins. At the time, she began performing in bars and gave her first concerts. She later graduated from the Federal University of Maranhão with a degree in communication studies.

Musical career

Before becoming a well-known performer, Prado used the stage name Mayara Prado and took part in talent shows, including The Voice Brasil, where she was a semi-finalist on Carlinhos Brown's team. She also appeared on the Jovens Talentos and Mulheres que Brilham sections of the program Programa Raul Gil. Her victory earned her a record deal with Sony Music Brasil. In 2014, Prado presented her debut EP ''Mayara Prado'', which featured Turma do Pagode on “Pó Para” and Marcos & Belutti on “Linguagem dos Beijos”. The following year, the repertoire was expanded for the album ''24 Horas por Segundo''. Both albums failed to gain commercial success.

The change from her stage name to her current one was adopted at the suggestion of Fernando Zor, one half of the duo Fernando & Sorocaba. With the change, Prado released the album Ensaio Acústico, which featured songs such as "Duvido que Vamos Brigar Novamente". Prado made a name for herself in 2018 with the song "Cobaia", featuring the sertanejo duo Maiara & Maraisa. The song reached around 10 million views in around two months of release and was part of the EP ''Lauana Prado''. The singer then went on to record the live album Verdade (2019), which included a re-recording of Cobaia and new songs with the participation of Fernando & Sorocaba and Gabriel Diniz.

In 2020, the complete edition of ''Livre'' was released, recorded at the Hopi Hari amusement park in São Paulo, with special appearances by Matheus & Kauan, Bruno & Marrone, Fernando Zor and the band Maneva, with songs such as "Viva Voz", "Beijo Amador", "Sua Mãe Tá Nessa", "Você Humilha" and "Suor da Sua Boca".

In 2022, Prado released the album ''Natural'', whose repertoire was recorded in the Jalapão State Park under the production of Gabriel Pascoal. With songs such as "Primeiro Eu", “Zap” and “Terminou Com Calma”, it was her second work nominated for a Latin Grammy in the category of Best Sertaneja Music Album. In the same year, she presented the live album ''Raiz'', made up of re-recordings of sertanejo songs, with musical production by Henrique Souza. The project led to a follow-up and subsequent tour in 2023 with the album ''Raiz Goiânia'', with musical production by Prado and William Santos. The re-recording of “Escrito nas Estrelas”, originally by Tetê Espíndola, went viral on social media. Also in 2023, Prado released the album ''Ao Vivo em Brasília'', produced by Ivan Miyazato, and comprising songs such as "Desandei", "Tanto Faz" and "Whisky Vagabund0".

In 2024, Prado presented the album ''Transcende'', recorded live at the Ginásio do Ibirapuera, with the participation of Zé Neto & Cristiano, Nando Reis, Simone Mendes and Cristinas, produced by Eduardo Pepato.

Musical style and influences

Prado is described as a sertanejo artist who flirts with various genres, such as reggae and rock, genres that she says she had significant contact with when she lived in the state of Maranhão. She has also collaborated with artists from different musical segments, such as forró singer Xand Avião, rapper Edi Rock and pagode band Sorriso Maroto.

Prado's repertoire is also characterized as more positive compared to other names on the country scene. She told G1 that "I believe that my way of speaking and singing country music is much more optimistic, with a positive outcome, of things having worked out, rather than you suffering, banging your head. I think it's sensational, I respect it, I love it, but it's not my truth. I really like to talk about well-resolved love, the intense feeling, when you manage to achieve something positive."

About the singer, composer Carlos Rennó said in 2023 that Prado is "a popular singer whose goals include raising the artistic level of sertanejo music, in addition to her non-conservative behavior, if we consider artists in general of this genre of music."

Personal life

Prado is openly bisexual. In an interview with Istoé magazine in 2021, she said: "For me, within the scope of my personal life, I have always lived my sexuality freely. It has never been taboo and I defend my bisexuality as a woman. It's such an intimate subject that it's been very veiled. Our speeches came out very naturally. I never put any weight on the issue. I've had relationships with men with the same intensity."

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Extended plays (EP)

Singles

As featured artist

References

External links

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1989 births
Living people
People from Goiânia
Brazilian women singer-songwriters
Brazilian singer-songwriters
Sertanejo musicians
21st-century Brazilian singers
21st-century Brazilian women singers
Sony Music artists
Universal Music Group artists
Women in Latin music
Brazilian bisexual musicians
Brazilian LGBT singers
Bisexual women musicians