Blaya, stage name of Karla Rodrigues (born May 27, 1987 in Fortaleza, Brazil), is a Luso-Brazilian singer and dancer.[1]

Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Discography 3.1 Singles 4 Awards and nominations 5 References Career

She started singing in 2001, but her professional career only began in 2008, after joining a casting looking for stage dancer of Buraka Som Sistema. She also ended up becoming one of the group vocalists. The partnership with the band lasted until 2016, after the group announced its hiatus for undetermined time.[1] Before that, in 2013, Blaya released a free solo EP, the self-named Blaya. In order to promote the EP, she released the music video for "Superfresh", one of the EP's tracks, in December 2013.

Since then, Blaya focuses on giving dance classes and later on she returned to singing.

In March 2018, she released her single "Faz Gostoso", which was a huge success on Portugal. "Faz Gostoso" hit the first place on the Portuguese charts and earned more than 24 million views on YouTube.[2] In September 2018, Blaya released two singles simultaneously, along with their respective music videos: "Má Vida" and "Vem na Vibe". In the same month, Portuguese TV station TVI premiered its new telenovela, Valor da Vida and its opening sonh, "Tudo Passou", is sung by Blaya. "Tudo Passou" incorporates musical and lyric elements of Kaoma's hit single, "Lambada" and its music video was shot in Guimarães.

Personal life

Even though Blaya was born in Brazil, she came to live in Portugal when she was only two months old.[3]

In 2012, she publicly announced her bisexuality.[4]

In July 2017 she gave birth to her first child, a girl named Aura Electra Rodrigues Russo.[5]

Discography Singles List of singles, with selected details and chart positions Title Year Peak chart positions Album POR

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"Faz Gostoso" 2018 1 Non-album single(s) "Má Vida" — "Vem na Vibe" 46 "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.