in february 2013, the singer was invited to be interviewed in the "leading women" program of cnn international, and was announced by the issuer as the "brazilian madonna". the attraction highlights the most influential women in the world in their fields. already in 2012, the bahian singer had attracted the attention of american writer and feminist camille paglia, who declared to the british newspaper the independent, that had a "crush" by the bahian star. since she had been in the country, for a conference in bahia, paglia has written enthusiastic articles about mercury, saying that daniela mercury is the artist who's madonna wanted to be. paglia said, a canadian television station, which is "in love with a brazilian superstar. i'm watching her work. she is daniela mercury. in fact, this has been very important. this is the point where i am in my life" . in an interview with the brazilian magazine veja, intellectual revealed her plans to write two books about the bahian singer.