Vai na Fé (English title: Never Give Up) is a Brazilian telenovela created by Rosane Svartman. It aired on TV Globo from 16 January 2023 to 11 August 2023. The telenovela follows Sol (Sheron Menezzes), a church choir singer who decides to become a back-up singer for Lui Lorenzo (José Loreto), in order to fix her family's financial difficulties. Carolina Dieckmann, Emilio Dantas, and Samuel de Assis also star.

Plot 
In her youth, Sol (Sheron Menezzes) gave up her dream of becoming a funk singer to become an Evangelical and marry Carlão (Che Moais). However, 20 years later, Sol receives an invitation to be a back-up singer for the declining singer Lui Lorenzo (José Loreto), after being discovered singing while selling boxed lunches in downtown Rio de Janeiro. With two daughters to raise and an unemployed husband, Sol accepts, but the decision turns her life upside down: she gains more and more fame and is harassed in church for her "worldly" behavior, as well as facing Lui's infatuation and reuniting with Ben (Samuel de Assis), her love from her youth who never forgot her. This reunion calls into question Ben's marriage to Lumiar (Carolina Dieckmann), a tough and controlling lawyer, and Lui's half-sister.

Cast

Main 

 Sheron Menezzes as Solange "Sol" da Silva Carvalho
 Jê Soares as Young Sol
 Carolina Dieckmann as Lumiar Lorenzo Garcia
 Hanna Romanazzi as Young Lumiar
 Emilio Dantas as Theo Camargo Bastos
 Matheus Polis as Young Theo
 Samuel de Assis as Benjamin "Ben" Garcia
 Isacque Lopes as Young Ben
 José Loreto as Lui Lorenzo Campos
 Pedro Burgarelli as Child Lui
 Regiane Alves as Clara Albuquerque Bastos
 Bella Campos as Jenifer Daiane da Silva Carvalho Bastos
 Elisa Lucinda as Marlene Gonzaga
 Rhavine Chrispim as Young Marlene
 Carla Cristina Cardoso as Bruna
 Dhara Lopes as Young Bruna
 Luis Lobianco as Vítor "Vitinho" de Oliveira Sena
 Anderson Oli as Young Vitinho
 Marcos Veras as Simas (Evilásio Simas Neto)
 Marcus Maria as Young Simas
 Letícia Salles as Érika Teixeira / Érika "Ventania"
 Che Moais as Carlos "Carlão" Eduardo Carvalho
 Mateus Honori as Young Carlão
 Cláudia Ohana as Dora Lorenzo
 Zé Carlos Machado as Fábio Lorenzo
 Hugo Caramello as Young Fábio
 Jonathan Haagensen as Orfeu Caruso
 Nicollas Paixão as Young Orfeu
 Mel Maia as Guilhermina "Guiga" de Alcântara Azevedo
 Henrique Barreira as Frederico "Fred"
 Jean Paulo Campos as Yuri dos Santos
 Gabriel Contente as Otávio "Tatá" Martins de Lemos
 Caio Manhente as Rafael "Rafa" de Albuquerque Bastos
 Flora Camolese as Maria Beatriz "Bia"
 Clara Serrão as Isabela "Bella" Vieira
 MC Cabelinho as Hugo de Oliveira
 Orlando Caldeira as "Anthony Verão" (Antônio Araújo)
 Priscila Steinman as Helena Weinberg
 Azzy as Ivy "Furacão" (Ivy Gouveia)
 Tati Villela as Naira
 Lucas Oradovschi as Jairo Damasceno
 Neyde Braga as Neide Batista Nascimento
 Waldo Piano as Joel Batista Nascimento
 Alan Oliveira as DJ Cidão
 Adriano Canindé as Pastor Miguel
 Clara Moneke as Kate Cristina Ramos
 Manu Estevão as Maria Eduarda "Duda" Carvalho da Silva
 Nego Ney as Gil
 Felipe Rodrigues as Bryan
 Nathália Costa as Meire
 Renata Sorrah as Wilma Campos
 Anna Pimenta as Young Wilma

Recurring 
 Theo Parizzi as Vicente
 Laiza Santos as Alice Ferraris
 Bruno Padilha as Emílio de Alcântara Azevedo
 Zé Wendell as Carlos / "Charles Pierre"
 Cris Werson as Sabrina
 Giuliano Laffayete as Fabrício Santiago
 Duda Moreira as Niltão
 Miguel Emidio as Erick
 Pedro Camargo as Kaduzinho
 Renata Miryanova as Sheila Palhares
 Ubiraci Miranda as Jefferson

Guest stars 

 Deborah Secco as Alexia Máximo
 Antônio Calloni as "Stuart Philips" / Aristides Formiga
 Samara Felippo as Vera Castro Caldas
 Otávio Augusto as Aurélio
 Rafael Baronesi as Dr. Jorge
 Bruno Garcia as Marcos Lorençato
 Clara Tiezzi as Talita de Andrade
 Christiane Torloni
 Ludmilla
 Maiara & Maraisa
 Mariana Ximenes
 Fábio Porchat
 Glória Perez
 João Emanuel Carneiro
 Negra Li
 Walcyr Carrasco
 Luciano Huck
 Lulu Santos
 Cynthia Lee Fontaine
 Fátima Bernardes
 Diego Montez as Willian Carneiro
 Sofia Starling as Gisela
 Jade Cardoso as Letícia

Production 
In October 2021, Rosane Svartman's synopsis was approved by TV Globo, with the working title being Tente Outra Vez. The telenovela was scheduled to premiere in November 2022. However, so that it wouldn't be disrupted by the coverage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the premiere was postponed to January 2023. Filming of the telenovela began in October 2022, in Nova Friburgo, Lumiar and São Pedro da Serra. On 13 December 2022, the first teaser for the telenovela was released.

Ratings

References

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2020s Brazilian television series
2023 Brazilian television series debuts
2023 Brazilian television series endings
2023 telenovelas
Musical telenovelas
Portuguese-language telenovelas
Television series about fictional musicians
TV Globo telenovelas