Born in Mooca, East Zone of São Paulo, she started imitating the artist as a joke. In her words, she did a little show here and there, “earning a little money”. She even met her husband and his manager, in 1998, and together they put together a professional show.
She was actually hired and traveled every weekend with the show. I say that my job, my profession is to cover Madonna. I live by it. Veronica
Things got so serious that the artist was hired by Warner and, between 2000 and 2002, she performed at the label’s parties for product launches and music videos. “Everything Madonna released, they called me and gave me the title of Madonna’s official promoter in Brazil.”
Despite this, Verônica never came close to the artist. In the blonde’s other visits to Brazil, she was far away, being precisely Madonna. This visit will be no different. “I ended up finding an event to do on the same day, in the interior of São Paulo”, she laments.
The Brazilian Madonna
In the early 90s, actress and therapist Regina Restelli, 63, was given the nickname Brazilian Madonna, due to her similarity to the pop diva. At that time, she wore a look similar to that of the singer to play the nightclub dancer Rosa Aimée in the soap opera “Barriga de Aluguel” (Globo) and even won a show, “Perfume de Madonna”, in which her character Zildete sang country music to the queen of pop’s classics.
