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Claudia Villela & Heloísa Fernandes at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Courtesy of Bennett Jackson | Posted on February 16, 2014
Where
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227
When
Fri, April 25, 2014
7:30 pm
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Musicians
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This marks the debut of a collaboration of two Brazilian artistic forces – singer Claudia Villela and pianist Heloísa Fernandes. Over the past two decades, each has forged a new identity, one rooted in Brazil’s rich cultural history yet speaking in a modern voice. Now these two voices join to make a third that promises to reveal even greater expressive power.
Claudia Villela’s voice is already familiar to Kuumbwa audiences – five octaves in range, lithe and startlingly beautiful in every register. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, she sings mostly in Portuguese, interpreting lyrics with keen emotional insight and supple rhythmic command. An inventive scat singer, she has honed a vocabulary of sounds that can evoke the hollow thump of a tabla drum, the muted trumpet of Miles Davis, the insistent twang of a berimbau, or the ethereal call of a flute. Her sound is also the product of composition, both of new works and unique arrangements of those by important Brazilian composers....