Anitta confirmed in the Southwest
August 7th to 10th at Herdade da Casa Branca, Zambujeira do Mar - Odemira
A leading artist of a new generation of Latin American music, breaking barriers and encouraging female empowerment across the world, the colossal Anitta headlines the Southwest on August 9th.
Since breaking through in Brazil ten years ago, Anitta has become the leading artist of a new generation of Latin American music, breaking barriers and encouraging female empowerment across the world. As the biggest Brazilian female pop star in the world, the singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and occasional television show host has accumulated more than 65 million followers on Instagram and more than 17 million subscribers on YouTube, totalling close to 8 billion views.
The numbers are truly impressive, but Anitta doesn’t stop there… she is also on the list of the 50 most awarded musicians of all time, according to The Artist Museum portal. The Brazilian artist has more than 760 nominations and more than 300 awards. At the Latin Grammy Awards she was nominated 8 times and won 4, she also won 8 MTV Europe Music Awards and was the first Brazilian artist to receive the nomination for Best Latin American Act. In July 2013, she released her debut album, a self-titled album, with 14 new tracks, mostly written by you.
Anitta’s second album, “Ritmo Perfeito”, was released a year later, followed by “Bang”, released in 2016. The music video for the title track of this album has received more than 430 million views since its release. The artist was also highlighted at the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, where she performed alongside Brazilian singers and composers Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. The fourth album, “Kisses”, conquered the world in April 2019 and marked Anitta’s first trilingual record, with songs in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Anitta’s influence goes beyond music and is today an icon of pop culture.
She collects covers from various publications, such as Vogue Brasil, Marie Claire Brasil, Allure, V Magazine, Elle Brasil, GQ México, GQ Brasil and Harper’s Bazar Brasil. On her resume, she also has collaborations with such big names as Madonna, Major Lazer, J Balvin, Missy Elliot, Black Eyed Peas, Diplo, Ozuna, and Maluma, among many others. In 2021, she released “Girl From Rio”, a single that became her first song to reach Top 40 radio in the United States. The fifth album, “Versions of Me”, features collaborations with names like Saweetie, Khalid, Ty Dolla $ign, Missy Elliot, J Balvin and Chencho Corleone.
But it was a solo song that catapulted Anitta to first place in the international top charts: “Envolver” was released in November 2021 and would become the biggest hit of her international career, topping the Spotify Global Top in March 2022, becoming the first Brazilian or Latin American solo artist to achieve this feat. He was also the first Brazilian artist to win at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA), for Best Latin Music, and at the American Music Awards, he received a nomination for New Artist at the Grammy Awards and Billboard included him among the 15 most influential musicians in the world. world on social media.
On September 12, 2023, Anitta made history once again at the MTV Awards, winning Best Latin Video for the video for “Funk Rave”. It was her second consecutive victory in this category, which made her the only Latin woman to achieve this feat. “Bellakeo” with Peso Pluma, a single released in December 2023, has more than 184 million views and is #4 in the global top music videos on YouTube. “Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story”, their fourth EP containing a trilogy of songs and videos, was released in August 2023 and its 3 tracks, “Funk Rave”, “Casi Casi” and “Used To Be”, they will be part of her sixth studio album, which will see the light of day in 2024, with Sam Smith’s collaboration having already been revealed.
Dedicated exclusively to funk, it proposes an embrace of the culture of the communities and the funk scene in Rio, sung in Spanish and English, and will tell its story, its origins and the beginning of its career. This is, therefore, a good year to return to Portugal and once again dominate the main stage of the Southwest, as happened in 2019, in an overwhelming concert that remained in everyone’s memory. The colossal Anitta headlines the Festival Sudoeste, on August 9th.
Already confirmed:
August 7th:
Martin Garrix
Matuê
August 8:
Van Zee
August 9:
Anita
August 10:
From Weasel