Gusttavo Lima

Gusttavo Lima is a Brazilian pop star best known for getting football fans singing along to his signature hit "Balada." Born Nivaldo Batista Lima on September 3, 1989, in Presidente Olegário, Minas Gerais, to Alcino and Sebastiana Lima, he grew up in Goias and took up music at an early age. As a child, he taught himself viola, guitar, drums, bass, and accordion and became a choir soloist at the age of 9. He performed briefly with his brothers in a band called Trio Remelexo but left when he turned 13 and went to Brasilia where his career began in earnest. He performed for a while as part of Gustavo & Alessandro, but it was with his 2009 eponymous album that he began to gain traction. He followed it up a year later with Inventor dos Amores, though it was his 2011 album Gusttavo Lima e Você, recorded live, that really launched him onto the national and international stage. The album itself reached number 7 in the charts, while the lead single "Balada" was taken up as a football anthem both in his native Brazil and in Europe, thanks in no small part to it being championed by the football player Neymar. The song reached number 1 in the charts in Holland, France, and Italy, making Gusttavo Lima an international star. He followed up with his first international tour in 2012, taking his show to Latin markets in the US including Florida, Atlanta, Newark, and Revere. In the subsequent years, he went on to record albums like Ao Vivo em Sao Paulo (2012), Do Outro Lado da Moeda (2014), Buteco do Gusttavo Lima (2015), Gusttavo Lima 50/50 (2016), Buteco do Gusttavo Lima Vol. 2 (2017), and O Embaixador (2018), al of which achieved platinum certification in Brazil. Following the release of the live LPs O Embaixador in Cariri (2019) and O Embaixador The Legacy (2020), Gusttavo Lima continued his Buteco series on the albums Buteco in Boston (2021) and Buteco Goiânia (2022), whose lead single "Ex dos Meus Sonhos" peaked at number 17 on the Brazilian pop charts. In 2024, he released his eleventh live album Paraiso Particular, recorded at his house in Bela Vista, Goiás. That year, the track "A Noite (La Notte)," included in his live album Embaixador Acústico (Ao Vivo), debuted at number 23 on the Billboard Brazil charts.

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