Sónia Brazão

Started dance as an 8-year-old child, and entered the Conservatório (music and dance school) at 12, where she did classic ballet, hoping to be prima-ballerina. She also did modern and contemporanean dance. Sideways, she started a hobby as painter in cloth - later in canvas. At 19, a knee-injury stopped her work for about a year, during which she worked in a coffee-shop, and was sales person at an "in" fashion boutique. At nights, she sang in bars for her friends, and eventually did choir work for the group Fúria do Açúcar. She lived during one year in Figueira da Foz, where she learned to appreciate the romantic sun-sets at Quiaios beach. After a casting for a TV program, she was invited to take part in a vaudeville show in Lisbon, and soon after, she started an all-women music group that knew temporary success, Tentações. Her tall, elegant, blonde beauty helped. Then she was launched as TV presenter in TVI (Portugal's second commercial broadcasting station) in "Ri-te, Ri-te" (2000). Early 2002, she was show presenter during the political campaign of PSD - eventually the winning party in that legislative election. Still in TVI, she was presenter for a musical show, "Reis da Música Nacional" (2001), and played Beatriz Sampaio in the soap opera "Amanhecer" (2002).