Viviane de Queiroz Pereira was born in
Queimados, Rio de Janeiro on October 17, 1994, and raised in
Duque de Caxias. The daughter of Marines de Queiroz and Leonardo Pereira, she is of
African,
Portuguese and
Native Brazilian descent. Prior to her musical career, she worked as a manicure at her mother's beauty salon, who also had a part-time job babysitting actress
Vera Fischer's youngest son Gabriel. Her first contact with music was accompanying her older brother on tours with his rock band when she was 12 years old, and during her high school years she was introduced to
funk carioca. She officially began her career in 2012 releasing the song "Mulher do Poder", which reached over 11 million views on YouTube and was considered a landmark in the then-blooming
funk ostentação scene. Her posterior stage name, "MC Pocahontas", came from her alleged physical resemblance to the
eponymous Disney character. As the 2010s went by, MC Pocahontas released collaborations with
Naiara Azevedo and Dani Russo ("Ó Quem Voltou", which had a music video produced by
KondZilla which reached over 6.9 million views), and MC Mirella ("Quer Mais?"); both collaborations were certified Double Platinum and Diamond by
Pro-Música Brasil, respectively. In 2017, rapper
Future used a
sample of Pocahontas' voice on the song "Fresh Air" off his album
Hndrxx. The song was later used by
Kylie Jenner in a make-up tutorial. Her first release for the label, "Não Sou Obrigada", came out in April; described as an "ode to
women's empowerment", it reached over 11 million views on YouTube and 35 million streamings on
Spotify. Later that year, she and fellow funk singer
Kevin O Chris collaborated on the song "Resenha Lá em Casa", shooting a music video heavily inspired by the series
Stranger Things. In January 2021 she was announced as one of the participants of the
21st season of the reality show
Big Brother Brasil; on April 29 she became the 15th contestant to be evicted. On September 3, 2024, Pocah released her debut full-length album,
Cria de Caxias, described as an "autobiographical
concept album divided in three acts". ==Personal life==