Marcia Lopes
Marcia Lopes
Person
Genres: vocal jazz, jazz, brazilian
Similar artists via Last.fm
Diane Hubka
About Marcia Lopes
“Marcia seems to have been born with music. Her tone is very calm, very clear and everything in her interpretations gives the impression of good music, without effort, peacefully. The first thing her voice does is to produce the tone. That is good. It fills the listener with happiness. I was very impressed with the precise intonation and the perfect feeling in her interpretations. One of the most beautifull female voices.” Caetano Veloso Márcia was born in São Paulo. Started studying music at the age of 9 and at 13 was already taking her seat on school festivals and on Cultura TV. At 18 she formed a vocal group, under the batton of maestro Carlos Castilho. Her career involved music, theater and advertising. She took singing lessons with Fernando Carvalhaes and Cida Moreyra and from then on her career as a professional singer took off, performing with many musicians throughout Brazil. At the theater, she participated on many success plays, directed by pros like Gabriel Vilela, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri and Cininha de Paula. She also appears in albums of many artists such as: Eduardo Gudin, Antônio Nóbrega, Celso Machado, Mário Manga, Fábio Tagliaferri, Inácio Zats, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Música Ligeira and others. Recorded with the American violinist Jim Nolet, which took her to her first New York tour, doing shows for the release of the CD. In 1993 was invited by Música Ligeira to participate in the band's shows in universities circuits and theaters, in São Paulo and in the country side. The group, extint in 2006 with the death of the vocalist, gave its last performance in great style for the release of the CD and DVD at the Sesc Pompéia theater. On the stage were musicians such as André Abujamra, Paulo Bellinati, Arnaldo Antunes (with whom Márcia played a duet - here on youtube ), Paulinho Moska and others. To Márcia, to work with Mário Manga, Fábio Tagliaferri and Rodrigo Rodrigues served as a great school in her path as a singer. In 1996, her first solo performance was a homage to the great singers who had influenced her up to that moment. From then on, more detached from these influences, started to build her own style. The first cd, called simply “LP”, was released in Brasil in 2001 by the label Zabumba, produced by her together with Roberto Sion. In 2003, this work took her to a US tour accompanied by Roberto Sion and his trio. In 2004 the album got an indication to the Latino Grammy Award. In the same year, authorized for the Japanese market, it became the first cd put on sale in the MPB category. In 2003, Márcia was priviledged enough to sing ”Love me tender” with Caetano Veloso in a pocket show that took place at Baretto bar, inside the Fasano Hotel, where she has performed every Fridays and Saturdays for the last 4 years. In 2005 she made a special appearance on the show for the 40 years of Zimbo Trio, singingwith Jair Rodrigues. In a homage to the great singers in jazz, she did a show with Alexandre Mihanovich and Arismar do Espírito Santo at Sesc Consolação and in 2006 she appeared at the Sesc São Carlos in a duet with Carlos Fernando, singing Porgy & Bess. At the request of the japanese label Impartmaint, in March 2006 she produced, together with Mario Manga and Swami Junior, her second cd entitled “Bonita”, a cd authorized only to the Japanese market. Contrary to her first work, more to the jazz side, Bonita has a more Brazilian sonority, with 7 string guitars which accompany Brazilian and American songs chosen by Marcia and brilliantly arranged by Mário Manga and Swami Junior. Her last tour, in February 2007, was in Portugal. Márcia was invited for a bossa-nova-only show, accompanied by Portuguese musicians. Her most recent work is the group “Alfândega 4”, an almost virtual group. Márcia Lopes and Laura Lavieri, accompanied by Fábio Tagliaferri and Daniel Nakamura, sing only American and English songs and can be seen on youtube - Isn't This a Lovely Day and The Boxer
Taken from Last.fm
616 listeners · 16,289 plays via Last.fm