“I really wanted to be a paquita, but I couldn’t because I wasn’t white,” Negra Li tells Xuxa

The singer Black Li he talked about his relationship in his youth with the Xuxa in an interview with High hours last Saturday, 7, in honor of the presenter and her stage assistants, called paquitas.

“It was definitely part of my imagination. I really wanted to be a paquita, but I couldn’t because I wasn’t white, I wasn’t blonde,” she stressed.

Next, Negra Li quoted Adriana Bombom, another guest on Altas Horas: “But then someone entered the program… When I saw that black girl on the program Xuxa… She had confidence, didn’t she?”

“When I saw it I said: I can. Then I became aware, I took away a bit of that rapper thought and I said: it’s important to be in places. Bombom lit a flame, a hope. I saw the importance of being in places, being vision, having representation”, he continued.

Negra Li also revealed that she turned down an invitation to participate in a Xuxa program in the 2000s. At the time, she was part of the group RZO ​​and gained attention for her participation in the song It’s not seriouswith Charlie Brown Jr..

“Chorão once said that you invited me to participate in the program. ‘Who is that voice: ‘Young people in Brazil are never taken seriously…’ What a big voice, bring that girl here!’. I said no. I regret it, okay, Xuxa? Because I joined rap, and it was like: ‘What a TV, what a problem!’. That thought, I almost didn’t smile anymore, I wore my brothers’ clothes… “, he said.

THE High hours raised the topic due to the launch of Paquita forevernew original series Globoplay, which debuts on the platform on September 16 and tells the behind-the-scenes story of Xuxa’s stage assistants.

Source: Terra