Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Glaucia Araujo grew up with a passion for music and dance. 

Watching her perform, one gets the impression that she was literally born on stage. As a young girl, Glaucia studied ballet, jazz, and traditional Brazilian dance, and began performing professionally in Rio's Carnaval parades at age 12. Like many Cariocas, however, she would say her style was crafted from endless nights of dancing in Rio de Janeiro’s legendary nightclubs. 

Glaucia moved to America in 1998, and immediately found work with a west coast-based Brazilian dance troupe. This exposure created several new opportunities, and before long she was working with some of the top dancers and musicians in southern California. 

She had found true artistic freedom in her collaboration with the Afro Brazilian samba-reggae group Badauê. The band's rapidly increasing popularity had provided the consistent challenge of creating newer and more entertaining performances, and with a varied artistic background that included samba, pagode, axe, afro, salsa and even belly dancing, Glaucia took great pride in meeting these challenges. If you're trying to track her down, good luck. In addition to her busy rehearsal and performances schedules, this talented Brazilian beauty works as a print/runway model and has made television and film acting performances in such projects as Family Law, Gilmore Girls and Austin Powers: Goldmember. 

To meet the physical demands of such a hectic lifestyle, Glaucia practices the traditional martial-arts discipline Capoeira. A rhythmic fusion of dance and self-defense, Capoeira builds strength, flexibility, coordination and balance in a workout like no other. Having trained for more than eight years, she recently attained the rank of “Orange Cord”.