Overview
Xou da Xuxa is the second studio album by Brazilian recording artist Xuxa. It was released on 30 June 1986 by Som Livre, along with her television show in Globo.
The LP was sales record with it has sold over 2 million copies, becoming the best-selling album in Brazil and South America.
Background
At age 23, the model and presenter of Rio Grande do Sul Maria das Graças Meneghel was hired by Globo - who paid a fortune to get her out of the Manchete, where she presented the Clube das Crianças (Children's Club) since 1983 - to present the Xou da Xuxa, of the morning program won the title of "Queen of the Baixinhos" and the leadership in the audience in the mornings of the Brazilian TV, with an average of 7 million spectators daily. His musical career had begun in 1984 with the album Clube da Criança.
Recording
With the success of the program, Globo Network, decided to continue investing in the musical career of Xuxa, who had begun a year earlier with the release of their first studio album Xuxa e Seus Amigos (1985). Guto Graça Melo was contracted to produce the disc. When Guto met Xuxa, he realized she could not make a single note. Not knowing what to do, Guto appealed to the president of Som Livre João Araújo, who said "If seen. He invents an album to do with it."
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