#international-touring

#international-touring

Growing up, the Brazilian singer Anitta didn't travel a lot. "My family was poor, so we didn't have money to go anywhere," she said, speaking by phone from her home in Rio de Janeiro's Barra da Tijuca neighborhood. Apart from a few trips to nearby beaches, she spent her childhood and most of her teenage years without seeing much of Brazil, never mind the rest of the world.

Everywhere in the world - whether you're white, Black, Indian, Chinese - a sound system is being built, and they want Channel One to play on it, to endorse it. That keeps me going. I didn't think I would ever reach places like Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Argentina. Channel One has now visited about 36 countries, playing songs that we love.