SOFIA RIBEIRO & MARC DEMUTH DUO
Sofia Ribeiro (vc) & Marc Demuth (db).
MARC DEMUTH 4TET FEAT. SOFIA RIBEIRO
Sofia Ribeiro (vc), Marc Demuth (db), Pascal Schumacher (vib), Joaquim Badenhorst (cl), Yves Peeters (drms).
SOFIA RIBEIRO / GUI DUVIGNAU 4TET
Sofia Ribeiro (vc), Gui Duvignau (db), João Salcedo (pno), Leandro Leonet (drms).
BLINK
Sofia Ribeiro (vc), Francesco Diodati (guit), Matteo Bortone (db).
No ar (Sofia Ribeiro) Mayo (Sofia Ribeiro) Black coffee (P.F.Webster/S.Burke) You'd be so nice (C.Porter) Playful wings (Sofia Ribeiro/Gui Duvignau) Saudade (Sofia Ribeiro) Live in "THSC" (Porto), duo with Florian Weber.
Influences
Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Jobim, Chet Baker, Elis Regina, Amália Rodrigues, Bobby McFerrin, Mário Laginha, Milton Nascimento, Rosa Passos, Fay Claassen, Gretchen Parlato, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Guinga, Caetano Veloso, Cassandra Wilson, Carmen McRae, Hermeto Pascoal, Chico Buarque, Debussy, Maria Pia de Vito, Theo Bleckmann, Bill Evans, Maria João, Bjork, Dominique Eade, Stevie Wonder, David Linx, Pixinguinha, Ravel, Diederik Wissels, Ricky Lee Jones, Luciana Souza, Holly Cole, Lisa Bassenge, Erykah Badu, (...)
Sounds Like
“Sofia is an exceptionally talented musician who is stylistically diverse and technically proficient, with a remarkable ear and articulation technique. Her stylistic interpretation is seasoned, sophisticated and extremely expressive. She is one of the best scat singers that I have ever worked with!”
Bob Stoloff
“Sofia entered the talent-filled stage with both confidence and nobility. Her sound was wonderful. Her musical choices were simple and tasteful, managing to have presence without the usual vocal jazz clichés of over drama and imitation (…). This is clearly a case of true musical love and talent mixed sophisticatedly with lots of hard work.”
By Nomi Zysblat, about Rainbow Band Concert at B.P.C., (Boston, U.S.A.), December 2005
”Sofia seems to infuse the lyrics with emotion and soul and not simply sing the melodies, and this makes all the difference. An excellent debut record for a Portuguese jazz singer!”
By Leonel Santos, about Sofia Ribeiro & Marc Demuth Duo CD “Dança da Solidão”
Sofia Ribeiro was born in Lisbon/Portugal in 1978.
She has a diploma in jazz singing from “Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto”, where she studied with the Portuguese singer Maria João and the Dutch jazz vocalist Fay Claassen.
During her studies, she did an exchange program in Barcelona at “Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya” (E.S.M.U.C.), where she lived for one year. Later she got a scholarship to study at the famous Berklee College of Music (Boston). She was a student of Bob Stoloff for two semesters and was awarded with the “Oliver Wagmann Memorial Scholarship, for an “outstanding vocalist demonstrating academic excellence at the college”.
In 2006 Sofia released her first CD, “Dança da Solidão”, in duo with the Luxembourgish bass player Marc Demuth and in 2008 she released “Orik”, with the “Marc Demuth 4tet”.
She got the second prize of the first “Brussels International Young Jazz Singers Competition” (2005), and the first prize at the “International Jazz Competition for Singing Musicians: Voicingers” (2008, Zory, Poland).
In March 2008 she was selected to participate at the prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), that recognizes “outstanding, emerging young artists from all over the world”.
In September 2007 she was accepted for a master’s degree program at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and become a student of David Linx. The year after she got a scholarship to study at the prestigious “Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris” (CNSNDP). She got the master ‘s degree in jazz singing in June 2009 with “great disctinction”.
She sang in different jazz festivals in Europe, U.S.A. and Africa, like the Brussels Jazz Marathon (Belgium), Francophonie New York (U.S.A.), Easy Jazz Festival (Poland), FIMU (France), Euro Jazz Gala Trier 2004 (Germany), Jazz au Chellah (Morroco), Jazz Rallye Luxembourg City (Luxembourg) and Jazz 'In Tondela (Portugal).
Her recent performances include Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), The National Theatre (London), Centro Cultural de la Villa (Madrid), The Music Village (Brussels), Sunset Jazz Club (Paris), The Hopper (Antwerp, L'Inoui (Luxembourg), Jazz Si Club (Barcelona), Berklee Performance Center (Boston), Sa Clau Jazz Club (Menorca), Hot Clube de Portugal (Lisbon), Rundetaarn (Copenhague, Denmark) and The Millennium Stage (Washington).
Sofia-How could anybody influenced by Ravel, Debussy, Jobim, and Norma Winstone & John Taylor go wrong? Love your music you've posted here-especially your originals! All my best to you-Gary (USA)
Olá Sofia como estas ? Muito obrigado por me adicionar é um prazer para mim ! Espero que gostes de algumas das minhas musicas. Um grande abraço de Cascais ! Vicente
