Acrobat, trapezist. Her parents are Acir da Silva Vaz and Maria Aparecida Cerícola. She belongs t the third generation of the Cerícola family which started with her maternal grandparents Leonardo Cerícola and Zélia Cerícola. She and debuted at age eight performing acrobatics and then worked for the circuses Trapézio (owned by the family), Gran Babilonia (owned by the Stevanowich's), Capi, Charles Barry, Di Roma, D'Itália, Bismark, Trans Coliseu Circus and Circo-Teatro Zpelia until 1990.