Biography

Wanessa Godói Camargo Buaiz (born 28 December 1982), known professionally as Wanessa, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter. Wanessa was born in Goiânia, Goiás, on 28 December 1982. She is the daughter of the Brazilian sertanejo singer Zezé Di Camargo from the duo Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano and of the businesswoman Zilú Godói. She attended public schools during her childhood, but she had no toys because of the financial difficulties of her family.

In 1991, at 9 years old, she moved to São Paulo when her father and her uncle Luciano Camargo went in search of success. In 1992, she was enrolled in a private school, but suffered prejudice from colleagues and employees because of her social class.During an interview for Veja, Wanessa said: "The principal of the school was always insinuating that we would not pay the college. She humiliated us, but I was so insecure that I never told this to my parents, and even that was a mockery. Once, to make me happy, my father took a borrowed lance just to give me the taste of going to the car class."Also in 1991, she started a band with her three friends Kiko, Leandro and Bruno, who in the future would form the group KLB. The boys played the instruments and Wanessa was the lead singer, The band's first name was The Fenders, a reference to the guitar brand. They then changed their name to Neon and started performing at clubs and parties with versions of songs by Xuxa and Leandro & Leonardo.In 1993, at the age of ten, Wanessa began to study theater, ballet and tap dance, and over time learnt street dance. As an adolescent, she began to do gymnastics and artistic gymnastics to gain physical fitness when dancing. In 1995, she had her first theater role in the musical Cats. In 1996, she began to integrate the body of dancers of the duo Zezé Di Camargo and Luciano.