Sandy & Junior
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Genre(s) | Pop | |
| Years active | 1991-present | |
| Label(s) | Polygram (1991-1998) Universal (1999-present) |
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Sandy & Junior are a pop music duo consisting of siblings Sandy Leah Lima (born January 28, 1983) and Durval de Lima Junior (born April 11, 1984). They had a selftitled weekly television series between 1999 and 2002 in Rede Globo and released the movie Acquaria in 2003; Sandy also starred the soap opera Estrela Guia in 2001. They appeared in the Renato Aragão movie O Noviço Rebelde in 1997. Both have experienced solo work: Junior is the drummer of the band SoulFunk; Sandy also frequently sings without her brother.
The duo started singing kids songs and country-influenced tracks (their first single, Abre a Porta Mariquinha, is one of the most remembered songs ever in the country) and when they reached the adolescence, they changed their style to pop-influenced songs, with lots of ballads and upbeat songs. The style-change was in 1997. They reached their peak in 1999.
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[edit] Biography
Sandy Leah Lima and Durval de Lima Junior were born to Noely Lima and Durval de Lima "Xororó", from the highly successful "sertanejo" country duo Chitãozinho & Xororó. They were born and raised in Campinas, where they still live nowadays.
They made their first public performance in the television show Som Brasil, when they were young kids. In 1991, the duo released their first album through Polygram Records, O Aniversário do Tatu. It sold 300,000 copies.
The sophomore album Sábado à Noite was released in 1992, and the third one, Tô Ligado Em Você, was released in the following year. Both sold over 400,000 copies. In this era, Sandy & Junior started performing to crowds of 60,000 people and over.
These first three albums, that featured covers of U.S. hit singles and country-influenced songs, were responsible for shooting the duo to superstardom and positioning them as teen idols in Brazil.
Pra Dançar Com Você, the fourth album, was released in 1994. It featured a cover version of Jackson Five/Mariah Carey hit "I'll Be There", and sold 500,000 copies. Vocé É D+ was released in 1995, and sold 550,000 copies. It featured a song written to the then popular children television series Power Rangers.
Dig Dig Joy, released in 1996, was another success for Sandy and Junior with 700,000 copies sold. Sonho Azul, the next album released in 1997, featured a Bee Gees medley and was also a big-seller. In "Sonho Azul", Sandy & Junior started to change their kids-tunes to ballads and pop songs targeted to teenagers.
In 1998, the duo and their management decided not to release a studio album. However, they released their first live album, Era Um Vez...Ao Vivo. It sold a record 700,000 copies in only two days, and 1.7 million copies to date, becoming their best-selling record at the moment.
They parted from Polygram and signed Universal Records in 1999. In the same year, they released their seventh studio album, As Quatro Estações. It featured a more mature image of the duo, and Junior's first solo song. As Quatro Estações sold impressive 2.5 million copies in Brazil and is one of the best-selling albums of all time in the country.
In the following year, the couple released their second live album, As Quatro Estações Ao Vivo. It was recorded in a concert of their 2000 tour, which was the highest-grossing and most expensive of the year in Brazil. The album sold astonishing 2.7 million copies. Later, Todas As Estações, the duo's first (and only to date) remix album, was released. The remix album sold 460,000 copies, an incredibly high number for a remix.
In 2001, they released a selftitled album. It was supposed to be called 11; however, due to the September 11 attacks, they decided not to do it. The album sold 1 million copies in only three days, and 2 million copies to date and was a big hit.
Sandy & Junior recorded their first full-length English language album in 2002, named just Sandy & Junior (Sandy & Junior Internacional in Brazil). It was produced by some of the producers who worked with Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and other huge artists. The album was a flop in the United States and Europe, but still managed to sell 300,000 copies in Brazil.
Sandy & Junior were the first Brazilian pop acts to do a paid-concert at Maracanã, the world's biggest stadium. The concert spawned a live album and a DVD.
In 2003, they quickly recorded and released Identidade, their tenth Portuguese language studio album. It sold less thatn 350,000 copies, but was still a success. Their next album would come three years later, in 2006; it was simply called Sandy & Junior. It has already sold around 125,000 copies and counting.
[edit] Acting career
Their first television show was the 'Sandy & Junior Show' on the Brazilian network Manchete. Their variety show increased the channel's rating, so Brazil's leading-net, Rede Globo, quickly signed with them in 1998. Their contract forbid them to appear on TV shows of other channels. At Rede Globo they did a teenager- and kid-oriented comedy showing them at their school called 'Sandy & Junior'. The show was the most-watched in its time-slot.
In 2001, Sandy did her first starring role on the soap opera 'Estrela Guia'. The soap was successful and Sandy acting skills received good reviews. Junior also acted in the soap in a recurring role. The series was taped at Campinas, a city in São Paulo where they live, but the soap opera was taped at Rio de Janeiro, where Globo studios are located. Because of that conflict, the last season of the 'Sandy & Junior' series had them living in Rio de Janeiro to attend college.
The last episode of 'Sandy & Junior' aired in 2002 and in the same year they released their first movie, Acquaria, which was a box-office flop.
In 2003 they didn't renew their contracts with Globo and they promoted their CD 'Identidade' on other channels as well. In 2004, they did renew their contract and made plans for an end-of-year special and a new show, but this never happened.
Sandy and Junior are still on Rede Globo and have some projects in development.
[edit] Personal life
Since telling a magazine that she had never kissed (she was 15 years old in 1998) and that she planned to get married still a virgin, Sandy's virginity was a hot topic in gossip magazines, and her pure image was often questioned and criticized by the general public and the media in general.
Sandy was always considered a charismatic and smart girl, but she was severely criticized by the press. She had health problems because of stress when she was only 16 and her personal life was always on magazine covers, dealing with secret and nonsecret boyfriends, fights with her family, and her pristine image.
Her pristine image was more talked when she was voted one of the sexiest women at the VIP magazine annual poll in 1999, but she didn't agree to do the sexy photoshoot. In 2000, she did the cover of the fitness magazine 'Boa Saude' wearing a top and a mini-skirt, when the usual outifit for the stars on the cover of the mag is a bikini. In a 1998 interview she told Contigo! magazine that she didn't kiss her boyfriend in front of her parents. Since 2000, Sandy has tried to break that image by not talking about her personal life. She also did an interview for Contigo! in 2005 in which she said she had never done drugs but had nothing against marijuana. She also did a sexy photo shoot for Vogue RG and was photographed traveling alone with her boyfriend and kissing him.
She had two serious relationship, with Lucas Lima (when she was 16) and with the actor Paulo Vilhena (when she was 17). She possibly had some unconfirmed affairs with a music producer and a director and then she came back to her first boyfriend, Lucas Lima, and she is still with him. After the huge repercursion about her declarations of virginity in 1998, she stopped talking about the subject.
Since 2004, Sandy is having a racy image and agreeing to do sexy photoshoots (sexy for her standards) and giving interviews dealing with marijuana and drugs, sex and other themes. In her new album, the song "Discutível Perfeição" talks about all her talk about her pristine image since she became a teenager.
There were also rumors of fights in the family (because they didn't want her to publicly date in 2002 and because they didn't want her to move in with her boyfriend in 2004) and rumors of silicone too at the end of 2004 which she denied.
Since the beginning of 2005, Sandy is a student in the Languages course at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica, in Campinas, where she tries to be a normal student, despite having bodyguards and groups of her fans always at the gates of the university's building waiting to meet her.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Year | Title | Sales |
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| 1991 | Aniversário do Tatu | 300,000 |
| 1992 | Sábado a Noite | 400,000 |
| 1993 | Tô Ligado Em Você | 450,000 |
| 1994 | Pra Dançar Com Você | 500,000 |
| 1995 | Você é D+ | 550,000 |
| 1996 | Dig-Dig-Joy | 700,000 |
| 1997 | Sonho Azul | 750,000 |
| 1998 | Era Uma Vez (Ao Vivo) | 1,7 million |
| 1999 | As Quatro Estações | 2,5 milion |
| 2000 | Todas As Estações - Remixes | 460,000 |
| 2000 | As Quatro Estações - O Show | 2,7 million |
| 2001 | Sandy e Junior | 2 million |
| 2002 | Internacional | 1,2 million |
| 2002 | Ao Vivo no Maracanã/Internacional Extras | 350,000 |
| 2003 | Identidade | 250,000 |
| 2006 | Sandy e Junior | 160,000 |
[edit] Singles
[edit] Past Singles
[edit] Current singles
[edit] Extra singles
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