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- Both songs originated from about 30-40 short audio recordings Anitta sent to Mike Dean several years ago, at his request, because he was going to DJ at a funk event in Brazil and needed ad libs that you’d hear in a brazilian funk set.

- Years later, Mike Dean and Abel showed up with a finished version of São Paulo (and more recently Rio). She said she was worried at first because the recordings she sent were entirely off the cuff and super crude, but Abel loved the way they sounded, even though he didn’t even know what it translated to at first. After she translated it, he insisted it sounded perfect and shouldn’t be changed.

- Rio’s production was finished at Anitta’s home studio (where Abel/Mike Dean stayed at during the Rio concert).