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).
No ar (Sofia Ribeiro) Mayo (Sofia Ribeiro) Playful wings (Sofia Ribeiro/Gui Duvignau) Ó gente da minha terra (Amália/T.Machado) Black coffee (P.F.Webster/S.Burke) You'd be so nice (C.Porter)
Influences
Ella Fitzgerald, Luciana Souza, Chet Baker, Guinga, Elis Regina, Joao Gilberto, Amalia Rodrigues, Fay Claassen, Sting, Lisa Bassenge, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Caetano Veloso, Cassandra Wilson, Morcheeba, Bobby McFerrin, Mario Laginha, Carmen McRae, Carme Canela, Chris Cheek, Tom Jobim, Hermeto Pascoal, Chico Buarque, Debussy, Maria Pia de Vito, Theo Bleckmann, Bill Evans, Portishead, Milton Nascimento, Maria Joao, Bjork, Dominique Eade, Stevie Wonder, Beady Belle, David Linx, Pixinguinha, Ravel, Ricky Lee Jones, Holly Cole, (...)
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 finished recently her jazz singing degree in ESMAE (Porto, Portugal), where she studied with the famous singer Maria Joao and the dutch vocalist Fay Claassen. During her studies she did an exchange program in ESMUC (Barcelona), where she lived for one year and started playing with the Luxembourgish bass player Marc Demuth, with whom she recently recorded her first CD "Danca da Solidao", a duo of doublebass and voice. In September 2005 she went to study for one year (with a scolarship) at the famous Berklee College of Music (Boston, U.S.A.) where she studied with Bob Stoloff, among others, and was awarded with the “Oliver Wagmann Memorial Scholarship, for an outstanding vocalist demonstrating academic excellence at the college”.
She sang in different jazz festivals over Europe, like the Brussels Jazz Marathon (Belgium), FIMU (Belfort, France), Jazzfest Euricore Trier 2004 (Germany), Jazz and Blues Express Differdange (Luxembourg), Lagos Jazz (Portugal), Jazz 'In Tondela (Portugal) and Capital, Jazz (Paços de Ferreira, Portugal) and her recent performances include The Music Village (Brussels, Belgium), The Hopper (Antwerp, Belgium), L'Inoui (Luxembourg), Jazz Si Club (Barcelona), Berklee Performance Center (Boston), Sa Clau Jazz Club (Menorca, Spain), David Friend Recital Hall (Boston), Hot Club (Lisbon), Rundetaarn (Copenhague, Denmark), Millennium Stage (Washington) and Walderdorff (Trier, Germany).
Sofia did workshops with Judie Niemack, Gillyanne Kayes and Dominique Eade. She also participated in the 16th Jazz Workshop International in Trier with Norma Winstone and Maria Pia de Vito and in the Advanced Workshop of Improvisation in Terschelling Island, Holland, with the singer Rhiannon, member of the group Voicestra conducted by Bobby McFerrin.
She got the second prize of the first Brussels International Young Jazz Singers Competition, in October 2005, organized by "The Music Village". In January 2008 she released her second CD "Orik" with the Marc Demuth Quartet. In March 2008 she got selected to participate at the prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), that identifies outstanding, emerging young artists from all over the world.
She finished recently the first year of her master degree at the Brussels Conservatory (Brussels, Belgium) with David Linx, and will be going to Paris in September 2008 to do the second year at "Le Conservatoire de Paris" (CNSMDP) as an exchange student.
Olá Sofia! Obrigado pelo add!! Cresci no Alentejo mas infelizmente só passei a conhecer a música portuguesa quanda já morava no Brasil. Gosto muito do seu trabalho!!! Sucesso!!
oh yes, I will. I really like the way you pimped yours. have some good time during this awesomely extraordinary beautiful summer and I hope to see/ear you soon.
sofia...optimos projectos!!!ainda para mais vou poder ver aqui em casa...mas onde é casa afinal....um problema comum. Beijinhos até a tua proxima vinda pela zona das chuvas
Hi Sofia, Thanks for the add! Reminder: The deadline for participating at the 30th Jazz Hoeilaart Intern'l Belgium is approaching. Check out our myspace &Hope to see you at our Jazz Hoeilaart Intern'l Contest! Take care & a lot of music
