TANIA MARIA

A advogada, cantora e pianista brasileira Tânia Maria nasceu no 9 de maio de 1948 em São Luiz do Maranhão. Uma artista entusiástica que tem uma noção perfeita de ritmo e balanço. Tania começou a tocar piano com 3 anos de idade e aos 13 já era lider de uma banda com músicos profissionais formada por seu pai que ao vencer num show de calouros passou a se apresentar em bailes e no radio.


Tânia Maria tornopu-se popular nos Estados Unidos desde que começou a gravar pelo selo Concord em 1980. Ela estudou música clássica, morou em Paris em 1974 e acabou se mudando para New York em 1981.


Uma espirituosa e improvisadora cantora aliada à uma pianista cheia de swing, Tania Maria começou gravando para a Barclay (1978) e Accord (1978-79), para nos Estados Unidos assinar com a Concord Jazz, Manhattan e a World.

Desde os anos 80 até 2004 Tania apresentou-se nos principais festivais de jazz do mundo e de certa forma, por não gravar a algum tempo, atravessa uma fase de ostracismo, ausente do radar onde se encontram os artistas que fazem sucesso.

Tania marca presença no palco.
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Brazilian vocalist, composer, bandleader and piano player, Tania Maria was born on May 9, 1948 in São Luiz, Maranhão, northern Brazil , she has a degree in law, and married early and had children. Tania began playing the piano at the age of 7, became a leader at the tender age of 13, when her band of professional musicians, organized by her father, won first prize in a local music contest and went on to play for dances, in clubs and on the radio.


Her music is mostly vocal, sometimes pop, often jazzy, and unmistakably Brazilian. Whether playing fiery samba, tranquil bossa nova, Afro-Latin, Pop and Jazz fusion, or any other style, she maintains a style that is uniquely her own. Her vibrant voice, brilliant piano work and outstanding performances have made an artist of increasing international popularity.


Her father, a metal worker and a gifted guitarist and singer, had encouraged her to study piano so that she could play in his weekend jam sessions, where she first absorbed the rhythms and melodies of samba, jazz, pop music and Brazilian chorinho. Since then, she has never worked in anyone else's group. Maria's first album Apresentamos was released in Brazil in 1969, followed by Olha Quem Chega in 1971, but it was a move to France in the late 1970s that exploded Tania onto the international scene. At a concert in Australia, her formidable musical precision and freewheeling spirit caught the attention of the late American guitarist, Charlie Byrd, who recommended her to the late Carl Jefferson, founder of Concord Records.

Tania has played virtually every important jazz festival in the world and has appeared on countless television and radio programmes. Tania has recorded more than 20 albums and in 1985 was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female".

Tania performed at prestigious venues like The Blue Note and famous festivals like the Monterey Jazz Festival in '81, '83 and '89, Saratoga Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Fest 1991, MOntreaux Jaz festival, New Orleans Heritage Festival and Puerto Rico Heineken Jazzfest 2001., Malta Jazz Festival 2003 at Maltese Islands, Novosadski Jazz Festival in 2004.

Reference - AAJ