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) 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, Chet Baker, Guinga, Elis Regina, João Gilberto, Amália Rodrigues, Tom Jobim, Fay Claassen, Lisa Bassenge, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Caetano Veloso, Cassandra Wilson, Morcheeba, Bobby McFerrin, Mário Laginha, Carmen McRae, Carme Canela, Hermeto Pascoal, Chico Buarque, Debussy, Maria Pia de Vito, Theo Bleckmann, Bill Evans, Milton Nascimento, Maria João, Bjork, Dominique Eade, Stevie Wonder, David Linx, Pixinguinha, Ravel, Diederik Wissels, Ricky Lee Jones, Luciana Souza, 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.
Sofia is teaching jazz singing at ESMAE (Porto, Portugal). She got the first prize at the International Jazz Competition for Singing Musicians (Voicingers 2008) in Zory, Poland.
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hi i noticed your new picture and i would like to play with you, despite your voice. What you think about? EEEEEIII:)))) hw are you?thinking about summer recidence with bortolone? ciao ciao
Muito obrigada pela a sua messagem!! No meu primero comentario eu lhe agradecia de aceitar o meu convite e lhe dizia que gostava muito da sua voz. Assisti a um concerto seu no swan bar em Paris e goste imenso!! Nasci em frança mas os meus pais som portugueses (o meu português é mais o menos!). Parabens pelo o seu trabalho de cantora, um abraço Sofia
É com imenso prazer e orgulho que anuncio a inauguração da minha exposição > ÍNDIA: Uma Viagem de Sentidos Terá lugar no dia 6 de Junho pelas 23h no espaço Contagiarte - Porto. Agradeço e conto com a vossa presença!
No dia da inauguração, haverá um CHILL OUT com decor indiano + musica + um espaço com ARTESANATO indiano (desde roupas homem/mulher, bijuteria, decor...)
"Índia: Uma Viagem de Sentidos
Exposição de fotografia de Hugo Lima. Resultado e resumo de várias viagens à Índia, caminhos inimagináveis percorridos, paragens no tempo e no espaço, um despertar de sentidos. O retrato de uma Índia quase ingénua, uma representação de quotidianos de olhares tímidos e sorrisos acanhados. Um convite à viagem."
obg por quereres pertencer aos amigos das janelas do fado. cada vez mais a nossa casa de fados tem mais amigos e gente que gosta de fado. será um prazer receber-te no nosso espaço em matosinhos. aproveito para te convidar a uma "espreitadela" ao nosso espaço aqui na net. abraço janelas do fado miguel cardoso
Hola Sofia, gracias por aceptar mi invitación. Me fascina como cantas, hermosa voz. Felicitaciones por tus composiciones... Maravillosa. Saludos desde Barcelona Antonio
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