After her early career as a siren of Axe music , the Bahian carnival music that became tremendously popular in Brazil during the early 1990 's , she has tried to universalize Bahia , collaborating with all kinds of songwriters and producers in and outside her country ; she wants to seek out any new sounds and visuals , from fashion and art and D.J . culture , always yoking them to the popular impulses that made her a star in the first place .