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Ana Paula Machado Valado Bessa is an Brazilian Christian worship leader and singersongwriter. She is the leader of the ministry of praise Diante do Trono, which has sold more thanmillion albums.

Valado studied Law at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , but locked up the course in 1996, and therefore decided to attend the Christ for the Nations Institute located in the state of Texas in the United States. When she returned to Brazil, she began writing songs, and she recorded her first album entitled Diante do Trono in 1998. Its creation marked the beginning of the group Diante do Trono. Ana Paula married the pastor Gustavo Bessa on September 13, 2000, one year and eleven months after they met. Afterward she struggled to conceive and portrayed this difficulty in her CD Esperana, especially in the title track Esperana. While recording her next CD, Ainda Existe Uma Cruz, Ana Paula was pregnant with her first son Isaque Valado Bessa, who was born on January 3, 2006, and on May 23, 2009 her second son, Benjamim Valado Bessa was born.

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