She made a cover of "You've Got to Help Yourself, the 80's international hit of the Japanese legendary band YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra).
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Within months, she received press attention from Blender Magazine(U.S), URB(U.S), "XLR8R",(U.S) "Dazed & Confused"(UK/Japan) and the Los Angeles Times(U.S), BPM(U.S), Rolling Stones(AUS), Folha de São Paulo(Brazil), Sonic(Sweden, cover), NPR radio(U.S), etc.
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The same year that she entered Keio University in Tokyo to contemplate a career as an ambassador, Tigarah found Baile Funk through her Brazilian friends in Tokyo and began to rap and record on her own.