Anitta performed at Today’s Citi concert series on Friday in New York City.
In addition to taking the stage, the 31-year-old Brazilian singer, who performed with Madonna in Rio de Janeiro, also sat down for an interview as a spokesperson for the outlet. May digital cover star and spoke about his past health problems.
In 2022, the hitmaker was hospitalized for months while battling an unknown illness that eventually went into remission.
The mysterious condition left her unable to walk and she admitted she thought she was “going to die” during the ordeal.
“I was super, super sick,” she recalled. “I got very sick and was so physically ill that I couldn’t work, and I hadn’t stopped working in many years.”
Anitta performed at Today’s Citi concert series on Friday in New York City.
In addition to taking the stage, the 31-year-old Brazilian singer, who performed with Madonna in Rio de Janeiro, also sat down for an interview and opened up about her past health problems.
He noted that the experience “was a big wake-up call” as he realized that “I physically couldn’t do a lot of things that I loved to do because of my health.”
“I had to take time to take care of myself,” she said.
While working to improve her health, she was inspired to make music.
“I wasted a lot of time in my life trying to achieve goals, please people and be successful,” he told Today.
The singer, born Larissa de Macedo Machado, said the illness “changed (my) mentality completely, and that’s why I made this album.”
Anitta commented: “I did Funk Generation in the hospital. I thought: I want an album like this; “If I die, I’ll leave behind an album I’m proud of.”
And that’s exactly what she did.
‘I’m very proud of this album and I didn’t make it thinking about streams, algorithms and numbers. I just thought about having fun and loving what I did,” he gushed.
Anitta was the star of today’s May digital cover
Anitta posed with presenter Hoda Kotb
In July 2022, the superstar took to Twitter, now X, to share a photo of herself in a hospital bed with a thumbs up.
She explained: “I came from the tour directly to the hospital to begin preparations for a surgery that I am going to perform as soon as my body is ready for it.”
In a follow-up tweet, she added: “Surgery was already scheduled before the tour started. I have something called ENDOMETRIOSIS (very common in millions of women in the world but not as talked about as it should). I’m fine, I’m very well taken care of and I will keep everyone informed. Much love.’
She told Today: ‘After my health problems, I started to take better care of my spirituality. I follow the Yoruba religion and I had to throw myself into that. I immersed myself in myself and everything that makes me feel at peace.’