Inside Anitta’s Mountainside Rio De Janeiro Home

Hi, AD.

I'm Anitta.

Welcome to Brazil.

Come see my house with me.

[lively concussive music]

Welcome to my house.

So, this is the entry.

I like to say that when I get in here,

I feel like I'm in an art gallery,

because it's clean, open,

has the piece of arts that I love.

[Anitta speaking in foreign language]

They were genius.

Like, just to handle me giving opinions on everything

because I wanted to make sure everything was, like, my way.

I downloaded an app and I made the whole house in an app

and sent them,

This is how I want the house!

And I mean, just to deal with this person, [chuckles]

this controlling client,

I think they are already very big geniuses.

This piece specifically was made for my house.

It represents the kids and the communities that I come from.

And the idea was to represent the favela.

This art is to represent the kids as the angels,

that they can also fly high in their dreams,

or have a limit like I didn't have one.

So, here we have, like, this crystals.

It was my idea to have this part here,

to have the crystals,

because I wanted to energize the house somehow.

I'm very into energy and crystals.

The dining area we have,

it's a big table,

because my family is really big

and we like to have dinners,

celebrations, everything together.

It's a lot of people.

And what I like to eat is feijoada.

It's a typical food from Brazil

that I just ate actually right now.

And we love to sit it all together

and eat together, talk, and play.

Brazilians are very close.

We like to have this intimate time

and here's a very special place.

Up here in this light,

what we wanted to represent is Orisha from Yoruba religion

called Omolu, which is the Orisha of the cure, the health.

And we wanna represent, like, the Orisha blessing our meals.

[relaxing music]

This is my bedroom.

I wanted to have zen vibes in my bedroom.

I wanted to feel like this is my temple, this is my altar.

And I wanted to feel, like, cozy,

I wanted to feel like the bedroom was hugging me.

And I actually drew this bedroom

to all the architects, to the designers.

I said, Okay, I want the bedroom to feel like this.

I want the bed to be on the floor.

So, we made these steps so we kinda separate them,

the actual bed.

So, this feels like this is all part of the bed,

'cause I wanted to feel like I'm on the floor,

this is my temple, and I sleep in my altar.

And I have a lot of, like, reference of spirituality

and things that I believe I have the Ganesha there.

Most of the arts in my house are from Brazilian artists.

[Anitta speaking in foreign language]

[Anitta continues speaking in foreign language]

I love having meanings

in the things that I'm putting in my house.

So, yeah, this is my sacred place.

So, this is my bathroom.

It gives me some delicate vibes, elegance.

I love it.

I wanted actually this bathroom to be full,

like, pink quarzo,

but it was very hard to find.

And when we found it,

it was gonna take like seven months to get here.

And I'm like,

I don't have the patience to wait several months.

[Anitta speaking in foreign language]

[Anitta squeals]

[Anitta speaking in foreign language]

Because it has the perfect amount of pink.

It's enough.

Enough pink.

You don't get tired of it,

and I love it.

And here, the shower, which it's a dream.

Every time I come in here to take a shower

and I look at the view, I'm, like,

[Anitta sighs]

contemplating the view.

It's amazing.

I also wanted the bath to be a pink quarzo,

but it was gonna take too long

and I didn't have the patience to wait.

But I'm happy with the white one.

[Anitta chuckles]

This is one of the guest rooms.

This bedroom started with this carpet

and that wall frame, that art.

So, this was the art.

I found this piece online.

It's a Italian artist.

And I sent this, the picture of this art,

to one of the architects and I said,

Okay, I want a bedroom that matches that.

And then I'm like, I sent this other reference,

which is a piece that I had in my house in Miami and I said,

And mix with this.

[Anitta speaking in foreign language]

[Anitta groans]

[Anitta speaking in foreign language]

And they are so talented.

They made it work in a way that, wow.

This bedroom here has two single beds,

and the other one I drew the bedroom, too.

I have this drawing thing.

I drew the bedroom with, like, four beds visible

and then other two beds that come out of the four beds.

And because my family, no matter how many bedrooms I have,

they wanna sleep all together in one bedroom,

like, [laughs] remembering the time

that we didn't have money to have many bedrooms.

They love that.

[upbeat music]

I did not expect a house like that

to have a bedroom like this. [chuckles]

But what happens is that I had a bedroom like this

in my house before this one here in Rio

so I can enjoy it and just bring a piece of me

from the old house, bring it to this one, too.

It's kind of like my piece of gratitude

for my old is history. [laughs]

[lively concussive music]

Okay, so, this is the favorite area

of the house, I think, for everybody.

Mostly for my dogs.

Every time I get into the house, they're here.

One there, the other there, the other here.

It's our favorite place because of the couch actually,

because it's so comfortable and big.

And we can, like, lay down, you know.

And the whole family fits in here.

We just watch movies, series.

We're always, like, getting together,

watching my upcoming stuff, my documentary,

or music videos, whatever.

I think they sent, like, three or four different images

for this room specifically.

And I was always like,

No, it seems very regular.

Any person can have this.

I was in Greece at the time,

and this gives me a little Greece vibes,

like the ceiling and the lights,

the way the lights go in.

Also gives me some Hmong vibes too,

which is something I love.

And yeah, it's our cozy part to get together.

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[Anitta speaking in foreign language]

There's just a relaxing part here to read a book.

Here, we have more art pieces that I love.

I'm fascinated.

It feels like these both are connected, but they're not.

It's just coincidence.

Amazing coincidence that I love.

I have these two pictures,

they're from music videos of mine,

also representing my religion.

I did this music video called Aceita,

and this music video talks about the religion Yoruba.

I'm very proud of it.

There's another bathroom here,

because the house is really big

and there was just one bathroom.

I was like, I cannot.

A big house with a lot of people

needs to have a lot of bathrooms.

Here, we have this part that I love.

This art was made for me,

also about my religion.

It's some of the Orishas.

This is my Orisha, Logunede.

These vases they come from Bahia,

which is the part of Brazil that they first arrived

and brought the culture of Yoruba and Orishas to Brazil.

And here's the living, the other living room.

So, this is a piece of art made

from Brazilian women in vulnerability.

So, there's this project that help this women.

They bring them, they teach them how to do these arts

and then they sell it and they make their lives with it.

That part, we did that circle, we opened that,

because I really like the rooms to be connected.

So, I feel like the house is so big.

Sometimes, people can maybe not even,

like, interact with each other.

And for me, it was very important

that the energy circulates.

So, we opened that so we can connect the rooms.

[festive music]

[Anitta speaking in foreign language]

I really wanted everything to be very Brazilian,

to feel like you're in Brazil.

I feel like when you're here and you see, like,

the mountains and the rock, everything.

Rio has this thing that you can be

in the middle of the city,

but you look around, you feel like you're hugged by nature.

And I feel like this is what the outside area

of my house brings.

There, we can see Indigenous art here from Brazil.

I have a very strong connection with Indigenous art

and I really like to be with them

and understand how I can use my visibility to help.

So, the pool was way bigger than this.

I reduced the pool a lot, because I like to do parties.

I like to have people here dancing, celebrating,

and I felt like we didn't need a such a big pool, you know?

We could have a smaller pool and a bigger area to party,

to celebrate, and that's what we do.

I did a birthday party for my mom here

and everyone was here dancing.

And if the pool was that big, we could not do that.

So, we have that tent there that I use for yoga,

I use for meditation, my spiritual exercises,

and everything, and feel connected,

and that is my part of the house for that.

I also have a place there

that I have, like, a mandala on the floor,

which is kind of like a circle for me to do rituals.

And also, I wanna bring some mantras,

get togethers, or concerts.

And yeah, this is the outside area that I love.

[relaxing music]

Okay, it's time to go.

It was a pleasure having you here at my house with me.

[kiss smacks] Bye!

[door clicks]