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It was the attitude of rap, the boldness of funk Mandela and the creativity of the fashion that Paulista Nandatsunami (born FERNANDA XAVIER FERREIRA SANTANA) began to build his trajectory in music. In July 2025, she released her debut album, That’s what I feedafter experimenting with EP/Mixtape Tsunami Season.

In an interview with Rolling Stone Brazilthe artist revealed that her stage name comes from “If they take wave, I shoot tsunami”, verse of the song “Angra dos Reis”, from Mc Dalestefunkeiro who was successful in 2010 and was killed on July 7, 2013 after being shot during a show.

It was on March 25, downtown São Paulo, that Nanda He began his life in the music industry. He always liked jewelry and music and, at 19, joined the useful with the pleasant when he started making jewelry for artists, like Flourishuse in music videos and shows.

“I got to know this guys from the song until I started to see this, perhaps, as an opportunity to express myself,” said the singer, who is 25 today. Despite having given a quick sequence to its launches and already accumulates 3 million reproductions on digital platforms with That’s what I feed, Nandatsunami I saw a musical career as something distant.

“In my head, as I could not sing, it seemed something I could not do and I did not understand, I did not see this size to be rapper,” he explained to Rolling Stone Brazil. “Rap is a style that talks a lot about self -esteem, which you need to have. As I had not yet built this self -esteem, it seemed very distant to me. I liked art, but it was always more conservative, so I wrote, but I didn’t think it would be something I could make music, for example.”

Then, isolated at home during the covid-19 pandemic, Nanda He started working on Beats and trying to fit some phrase or verse he had composed. With her creativity flowing, she was able to see value in what she was doing and finally invested in her career, which has already been fruit.

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Below, read Nandatsunami’s interview with Rolling Stone Brazil:

And how does funk dialogue with his rap career?
Funk is something I knew the most on the street, it was not a sound that I could hear indoors, but it was always part of my life. I see in funk a language that pleases me. For example, I hear a lot more funk Mandela than conscious funk. I always think you need to be very smart to write bitching music and make it sound cool. Funk has this boldness, this spirit of counterculture and to be different from what people expect, and it attracts me. I like people talking bold things.
I spent my teens listening to Mc Daleste a lot, but who brought me a lot of this influence was Mc Marcelly, because she was a woman who sang bitching – Valesca popozuda too. It was different, because I was used to see Manu Gavassi in the mainstream. Funk showed me this other side: the boldness of saying things to which society may not be prepared.

And how did you build your self -esteem to start your career in music?
It is similar to this funk issue. I didn’t see myself like someone who could rap, because it wasn’t the person who collapsed in a rhyme battle or lived in rap; I also liked pop and funk. My tastes were always plural and I felt that I didn’t fit in any of these places. That made me think, “Can I really be part of this stop?” I didn’t find myself “so rap”, that street girl, no funkeira. It was in this dilemma.

The process of building self -esteem came from my experiences. I had to go through various experiences in adolescence and personal life that helped me strengthen me. Spirituality was also fundamental, because creativity – this ability to express things creatively – is very linked to it.

The more I know myself, the more dive to me and I understand what I need to say and do. Before I was not so clear: I even made some songs, but I felt they didn’t match me. Today I have a different perception, because I know what I like and what I want to create.

Your career comes at a time when women in rap are in great evidence. Tasha & Tracie on the cover of WhimDuchess dominating the scene, Ebony launching the Km2Ajulosta winning Bet… How do you analyze the current Brazilian hip hop scene?
I see female rap as something very plural. Each artist has his own space and fulfills different roles. I feel that female rap has been essential to popularize gender in Brazil.

Perhaps some people, at some point, have difficulty connecting with rap, but women artists bring various subjects. Ebony’s album KM2, for example, addresses various topics, and many people identify with what she says. This self -knowledge that each puts on music creates connections with the public.

This is important for rap growth, because people are tired of always hearing the same formula. The mines arrive innovating, bringing new things and real songs.

Last year you launched Tsunami Season with seven tracks. What was it like to do this work?
It has more the shape of an EP. I already had “4 hours” and “brand new cries”, but in Tsunami Season, I wanted to try it. I thought, “I don’t just do funk, but I don’t just want to be at Trap. What can you create by mixing all this?” It was a moment of discovery and self -knowledge, to understand what feminine is.

I see this project as my first act of self -discovery. For artists, each work is like a season of life. This was my deeper first look into me, even in an initial way.

In July you released the album that is what I eat. How was the construction of this work?
He was born as I went through a spiritual process and tried to understand how to bring it to my life and my art. These processes are usually beginning, middle and end: first you understand what is happening, then cross the process and finally realize that everything will be fine. I wanted the album to have this structure, but I only realized it in the middle of creation.

The first track I wrote was “loose”, and I understood that I was dealing with feelings of rejection. I started to ask myself, “Why do so many love songs talk about rejection? Why is this almost universal?” From there, I worked the idea of ​​the album, investigating how we act when we fall in love and when it is rejected.

Exactly, what do you feed on?
Of love, affections, pains and memories – of everything that makes me feel alive.

What was your purpose with this record?
I wanted to express things that were kept in my heart and allow anyone to hear if you would like to feel, reflect and, from that, heal.

The lyrics speak a lot of love, but also prioritize their feelings and a self -realization. How did you get to that?
I think for self -knowledge. I have exercised transforming what I learn from life, to better understand what is going on in my head. Therapy, conversations with friends and the habit of writing a diary helped me a lot.

How do you intend to work in this new phase of your career?
Just as in the creative process of the album: with presence and conscience, paying attention to what I feel and what happens around me. I read in a book that the art of delighting comes from the gift of paying attention – and that’s what I want, pay attention to every detail to make the most of it.

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