[Musicians] Kelly Key

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• Musician Name:Kelly de Almeida Afonso Freitas
• Birthday / Location: March 3, 1983 (40 years old) Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazilian
• Main instrument: pop R&B dance-pop
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• Other Information: Kelly de Almeida Afonso Freitas (Rio de Janeiro, March 3, 1983), better known as Kelly Key, is a Brazilian presenter, singer, songwriter and businesswoman. In 2004 she also debuted as an art director for her own shows. Academically, Kelly graduated as a teenager in the performing arts course at Teatro O Tablado, but never worked as an actress, in addition to having graduated in administration at Centro Universitário Augusto Motta (UNISUAM), in 2010. In 2015, she started another university course , veterinary medicine at Estácio de Sá University, from which she did not graduate after becoming pregnant with her third child. Cancer (AMICCA), who has been godmother since 2003. Kelly has been married since 2004 to former football player and Angolan businessman Mico Freitas, heir to Grupo COSAL, whose family fortune was estimated at 500 million euros. : Suzanna, Jaime Vitor and Artur – born in 2000, 2005 and 2017, respectively. In her career as a singer, she has sold over 2 million copies.
• Her career began in 1999, when she signed with TV Globo and debuted as a presenter on the Samba, Pagode & Cia. "Baba" which gained radio prominence. On August 16, he released his first album, the eponymous Kelly Key, selling 500,000 copies and achieving platinum status in Brazil and Portugal, having also removed the songs "Anjo" and "Cachorrinho". In 2003 she released the album Do Meu Jeito, with which she sold 500,000 copies and extracted the singles "Adoleta" and "Chic, Chic". In 2004, she signed a contract with Band to present an auditorium program inspired by the MTV Brasil model, but ended up being temporarily relocated to Band Kids, which made her break the contract a few months after discovering she was pregnant. In 2005, he released his third studio album, again an eponymous album, bringing "Escuta Aqui Rapaz" and the version of the song "Barbie Girl" as singles and selling about 250 thousand copies, amending in 2006 his fourth work, Por Que Não? .
• In 2007, he left Warner and signed with Som Livre, releasing his first official compilation, 100%, where he released two of his greatest hits, "Você é o Cara" and "Super Poderosa", selling 100,000 copies. her sixth studio album, Kelly Key, which would become her last before announcing a seven-year hiatus from music.As of 2009, aiming to focus on her career as a presenter, she becomes a judge on the freshman panel on the show Show da Gente. releases her sixth studio album, No Controle, on Deckdisc.Since then, Kelly has dedicated herself to her YouTube show, where she interviews personalities from the fitness universe.
• Kelly de Almeida Afonso was born and raised in Jacarepaguá, a middle-class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Daughter of the merchant couple Elisabeth Mota de Almeida Afonso and Porfírio Ribeiro de Matos Afonso and having as only brother Thiago de Almeida Afonso, two years younger, the singer has Portuguese ancestry. During childhood she had a strict upbringing, since her parents did not allow her to play in the street, which meant that she did not create friendships until adolescence. Developing symptoms of agoraphobia, Kelly was unable to interact with others, including her teachers, which caused her to fail two years. During an interview years later, she explained: "I was terrified of going to school. I was even scared of the school bus driver. I didn't know how to express myself, I was ashamed even to say that I was feeling sick in the classroom". Despite this, Kelly had the dream of becoming an artist one day and, together with her brother, imitated celebrities such as Jô Soares, Hebe Camargo, Janet Jackson and Madonna at home. With the family camcorder, she created and recorded fictional music and interview programs, presented by her and Thiago.
• In 1990, with the intention of overcoming shyness, she started taking singing, keyboard, dancing and jazz classes. At the age of 13, her mother enrolled her in a modeling course and the young woman started to model, despite her father's position against it. In 1995, she enrolled in the performing arts course at Teatro O Tablado, run by playwright Maria Clara Machado, where she trained as an actress. In 1998 she created the artistic name of Kelly Lomback and intensified her activities as a model by participating in the beauty contest In Fashion Rio, which aimed to choose the most beautiful model in Rio de Janeiro between 14 and 18 years old, winning first place. Soon after, she also won Barra Beauty, which elected the muse of Barra da Tijuca beach.