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Biography
Cintia: Cintia, dancer:
CÃntia Rodriguez takes her activities as a dancer, a singer and an actress very seriously ; her career took off in Europe with Banda Mágica, and after several years she has had the opportunity to work on numerous occasions for various TV channels, as in the RTL Late-Night TV- Show hosted by Thomas Koschwitz. In the Harald Schmidt Show, where she performed during several months with her own group Brasil Fantasy, in the TV Total Show hosted by Stefan Raab and with Los del Rios with their hit Macarena. As a main dancer she accompanied Lou Bega with his Mambo Nr.5 hit on his world tour, on all national and international TV shows and collaborated with him in two of his video clips.
Cintia, singer:
As of her first years of childhood, she knew that she loved singing, but it was not before her encounter with Domingo Santana (singer and composer) that her talent was revealed at age 14 during her first appearance before a live audience. Numerous appearances in clubs and piano bars followed. When she left Brazil and arrived in Germany, she started off as a dancer and singer with Banda Mágica and other groups, followed after a couple of years as a member of Banda Confetti and Banda Brasil Corcovado.
Her career got off in a higher gear with singer Lou Bega, and thereafter she continued as a back-vocal singer for big national and international artists such as Stefan Raab, Anastacia, Lara Fabian and Amanda Marshall. She pursues her solo career as a representative of Brazilian music and continues to “bewitch†her audience with her beautiful and dynamic voice.
This year 2008 she makes her comeback with her solo album “Arco Iris†produced by Bai Kamara Jr. Arco Iris contains 14 songs, of which 11 are Cintia's own compositions and are sung in Portuguese (with some notes in English). The final result is a fusion of different styles, from Jazz over Blues, Ballad, Pop, Reggae to Samba, forming a beautiful entity, like the colours of the rainbow. A lounge-y bonus track is included, which Cintia recorded 6 years ago but has never been put on CD. Included also an own arrangement of Bluesette, song originally composed by Toots Thielemans who honoured Cintia by appearing as guest star on this song with his legendary harmonica.
Cintia, composer:
In her music she expresses, from the depths of her heart, her feelings, her ideas, her dreams and her reality. With her peacefulness and her great joy she succeeds, in a very intensive way, to implicate her audience in her musical world. Likewise she participates in the arrangements of certain songs and for her concerts she constitutes her own repertoire, on rare occasions with help of her band.
Cintia, citizen:
She dedicated numerous years to the assistance and visits to homes for elderly people, now she does the same for children suffering from cancer. By singing to them, Cintia feels the joy of these children as well as their smiles. "It is clear that I can not take away their pain, nor that I can fully heal them, but being in their neighbourhood, and to feel what music does to them, these are unforgettable moments. Every instant that I can live this, is not only a gift to them, but also for me" She also fights against hunger, maltreatment and sexual abuse of/against Brazilian children.
She supports Close The Gap(www.closethegap.be) which is an international non-profit organization, that actively helps to bridge the digital divide that exists between the West and developing countries. This is achieved by lengthening the life-span of Western IT equipment, which is replaced at an ever-increasing rate, even though it is still more than compatible for current use. Through the use of this IT equipment people in Sub-Saharan Africa, in parts of Asia and South-America get the possibility to acquire knowledge, which is the main driver for economical and social progress. Cintia has had the opportunity to visit the opening of such a project in Tanzania in August 2006 at the Mwereni School in Moshi, where a computer classroom for the blind and visually impaired had been opened with 30 PC’s. She was appointed Ambassador of the school. This year (2008) she will supervise a similar project for street children in Brazil where three more classrooms in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador/Bahia will be inaugurated. World Climate Day 07
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