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BIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHY : Sileide Santana, since was a child always liked to sing. When she was 5 years old,she used to sing songs all day long, songs that her mother heard, as tracks of soap operas of the time: Elton John, Sammy Davis Jr, Elvis Presley among other music big stars. Raised in a musical atmosphere,she has always been involved with arts. At 11 years old she got in a school of classical ballet and gave her best in full time, such by her skills and passion for dance and so on she developed great taste for classical music . With all this contact with various musical influences,she discovered her passion: The Country Music. After that she decided to take guitar lessons, and improve their studies in the corner,she started to sing in church with the group of young people and then take a group to sing at Masses on Sundays. In this period,she had singing classes with Maurício Manieri and 1 year of singing in musical theory and liric. In mid-1989 and 1990 was part of a program of country music presented by Odilon Wagner called Honky Tonk Tennessee, which was very important for Sileide, because from there she had more contact with the country music and could learn a lot about this style ( during this period in Brazil , there was no internet, access to music, lirics and information were very difficult).She won many awards for her participation in programs, answering questions, sending lirics, finally, with the program encountered many friends with the same musical tastes and founded the fan-club Honky Tonk Tennessee, having access to international artists who were in Brazil such as: Willie Nelson, Joel Sonier, Wild Roses, Diamond Rio, The Mavericks,Kevin Welch, Don Williams, Asleep at the Wheel and many others. In 1991 she put an ad in a newspaper of wide circulation, entitled Country Singer seeks band, and received several invitations from different styles, because people still do not know that really.When she found a staff who played the real country music ,and became part of the band as cronner and remained with the group for 3 years, traveling by several Brazilian states, including a very special participation in the celebration of marriage of the son of the consul of the States United, singing cajun music (French style that mixes music with the black music). In 1995, she traveled to Indiana in the United States, to complement a course of English, and used to further their studies on country music.She was in Nashville,Grand Ole Opry, and many other places related to the country. Still in 1995, returned to Brazil, and formed a new group and brings to the attention of the public a new concept of country music, Newgrass, and became a singer better known in Brazil's middle country. In 1996 was the beginning of a wonderful stage for the country music, so that arise homes directed to the style that filled nights every week and with the emergence of Brazil CMT (Country Music Television), has a partnership, which resulted In a major success for their careers, disseminating their work by several Brazilian states. She participated in several television programmes, including Raul Gil, the Thunderbird MTV, the Marcelo Augusto program, Marcelo Costa, Joao Kleber, the Jacaré program, Friends and Friends of Rede Globo participating in all programs as band sets. She worked in the best houses of São Paulo: Olympia, Victoria Pub, Banana Banana, Na Mata Café (Clydes), Palace, Hollywood Project, Leopoldo, Hebrew, Syrian Lebanese Club, Caipirasso, Caipiródromo, Tennessee Saloon, Jóquei Club. After 9 years of being a vocalist band,she decides to go on solo career, producing and composing music. And in this new phase, she..s also investing in international career, which has already started whe she did a tour around Portugal.

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