Lu Andrade
Luciana de Andrade (born 18 September 1978) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and actress. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge, recording two of the band's first four studio albums, Rouge (2002) and C'est La Vie (2003). With over 6 million records sold, the Rouge are the best-selling Brazilian female group of all time. In 2004, Andrade left the band citing exhaustion and creative differences but rejoined when they reunited for a fifth studio album, Les 5inq (2019) and concert tour called 15 Anos Tour (2018).
In 2004, after leaving the group, Andrade returned to her parents' home in Varginha, where she remained for some months without giving any statements to the press. In 2005 she returned to São Paulo to study music and to improve her musical ideology, working like vocal of support for Negra Li, Nasi, Theft, Forgotten Boys and Sérgio Britto, besides the American Eric Silver. In 2007, Andrade was invited to become a reporter for the Show Total program, the TVA subscription channel, where she remained until 2009. In 2010 she made her theatrcal debut in the theater musical Into The Woods, a Brazilian version of the Broadway classic. In 2012 she released her second tour album, titled Tour O Amor e o Tempo. and her first single, "Mind and Heart", followed by a second, "Amanheceu", in 2014.
In 2015 she formed the Duo Elétrico project along with guitarist Ciro Visconti, playing several covers of rock bands, besides becoming vocalist of the return of the band Aries in a commemorative tour of 25 years. In 2016, conciliating with the works in the music, she became the presenter of the program Estúdio Acesso Cultural, exhibited online, in addition to becoming a singing instructor in the Souza Lima Conservatory, where she had studied music 15 years earlier.
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