Who is Ana Paula?

Before the Throne’s history begins at 80’s, with Ana Paula Valadão. During her childhood, in Lagoinha’s Baptist Church, Ana Paula started to sing at the children’s choir. The potential of her voice was noticed at that time, and her father the senior pastor of the church, Márcio Valadão, stimulated her to develop that gift. Developing her abilities to sing and ministry, maybe someday she could become a leader of the worship ministry at the church.  

Her melodic voice was getting stronger as the ability to write lyrics. When she became 16 years old, Ana Paula assumed the leadership of one groupcalled El Shamah, which was formed with an orchestra and a big choir, who used to ministry at churches. During those times the teenager learned a lot, without know what would happen with her.  

Two years later she graduated at high school and started to study law at Federal University of Minas Gerais. “I thought that when I read the Bible saying to me raise my voice in favor of the poor, was God directing me to became a lawyer. But, soon I realized that He really would like that I raise my voice, but in a different way”, she tells.

One year after that she went to United States to study at Christ for the Nations, a seminary. After two years studying there and living away, lot things changed. She gave up of Law and the promise that Ana Paula’s life would impact her generation became real. Her songs started to flow in a natural way, as she describes. From the return to Brazil to the first live recording passed only few months. “My dream was to bring everything I had experimented during those years to my country”, she remembers.

The project happened (read about at the Institutional) and her life changed at the same way lot of lives changed through her testimony and ministry. Today already were recording more than 20 CDs, including projects to children and in others languages. Today Ana Paula Valadão Bessa is known as one of the main Christians singers in Brazil. “I know that is nothing for me. Everything is to glorify Jesus Christ”, declares. Songwriter of the majority of the ministry’s songs, she yields all her rights to make possible the social project at India. “Everybody at ministry do that. We don’t sing to become rich. We do that to bless lives”, she emphasizes.