Kelly Key by Kelly Key

Kelly Key is the debut album by Brazilian recording pop artist Kelly Key, released on December 22, 2001 by Warner Music. The album brought ten fully copyright tracks, composed by Kelly in partnership with Andinho, Gustavo Lins and Rubens de Paula, plus a remix of "Escondido" as a bonus track. The tracks were produced by DJ Cuca and Sergio Mama, bringing the artistic production was created by Tom Capone and amixagem the Afegan producer directly from the recording studios in New York City. Kelly Key brought a differential to join R&B and dance-pop to the mode used by international artists, a novelty in Brazil at that time, with the biggest inspirations the American singers Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Madonna and Janet Jackson, beyond Brazil Luciana Mello and Fernanda Abreu. The album reached the top spot on the music charts in Brazil, selling a total of 1,000,000 copies and winning the platinum certificate.The album received mostly positive reviews. Alex Antunes, Portal Dedo do Meio, said the work could address gender and feminism without using profanity and sounding more natural and less "virgin" that other Brazilian artists of pop romantic music, which meant that there was a greater identification of young people with his drive. The portal Contém Pop said the drive was well structured and significantly contributed to the construction and history of Brazilian music. Naiady Piva, the Portal Pop, compared to disk ...Baby One More Time Britney Spears work. Carlos Eduardo Lima, the Scream & Yell magazine, said the album broke the "prefabricated good-looking hypocritical" in Brazilian music, portraying young people as something enclosed, being the opposite of double Sandy & Junior. The first single released was "Escondido", on June 18, 2001, but it was the same with "Baba", his second work of music on November 7, that success started happening and Kelly began to appear among the top positions on the radio for weeks and came to have an agenda of Monday appointments to the second, including programs, photo shoots and interviews due to the sudden success.