Xuxa ( "shoo-shah" -, born Maria da Graça Meneghel, March 27, 1963, Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian Grammy Awards Winner, television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Xuxa is of German, Austrian, Italian, and Polish descent. She was a famous idol to Latin American children in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Among her achievements include the best-selling album in the history of Brazil, and being the second singer with the most number-one hits in Brazilian parades, surpassed only by Daniela Mercury. Xuxa has some of the biggest box office results in Brazilian history and a fortune of over $250 million dollars. Rise to stardom Xuxa's father, Luiz Floriano, was in the military and stationed in Rio de Janeiro when she was 7. At age 15, Xuxa was followed home by a magazine publisher who spotted the