Artist: CeU
Genre(s):
Jazz
Pop
Discography:
CeU
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
La Promesse Du Bresil
Year:
Tracks: 15
CéU proved to one of the more internationally likeable singers to break out of Brazil around the clock time of her 2005 debut, in the end pickings a Latin Grammy nomination for Best New Artist and garnering interest for herself in Europe and North America. Her recounting is what earned her hail, so far her music is novel as well, a fusion of samba, reggae, and electronica, with touches of jazz and psyche. She was innate Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças in São Paulo; all the same, she bills herself as just CéU. (In Portuguese, céu can buoy hateful either sky or heaven, depending on the context; more specifically, the word comes from the Latin word cælu and refers to the unnumerable quad viewgraph, including the sky as well as the cosmos.) She grew up in a medicine family; her founder is a composer, adapter, and musicologist. At an early age, she conditioned to appreciate noted Brazilian composers such as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazareth, and Orlando Silva, and as a adolescent, she distinct to become a singer. Rather than go to college, she studied music, including hypothesis as well as the violão, a nylon-stringed guitar native to Brazil. CéU finally moved to New York City for a spell once she was quondam sufficiency to leave home. There she encountered many modern influences, including old school jazz singers such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald as well as contemporaneous R&B singers such as Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu. Also spell in New York City, she befriended Antonio Pinto, a fellow Brazilian player; he is peradventure best known for opus the musical score to City of God (2002), among other films. In time, after moving back to Brazil and fronting a duo groups, CéU recorded her debut album, a self-titled acquittance produced mostly by Beto Villares, with the fiscal aid of Pinto. CéU was released in 2005 by Urban Jungle, a label based in São Paulo, in partnership with Ambulante Discos, Villares' label. The album was afterward accredited by Six Degrees, a fashionable tag based in San Francisco that is known for its catalog of Brazilian releases, afterwards CéU had already been met with success in parts of Europe, including France -- and, by connexion, French-speaking Canada as advantageously. Thanks to the hum encompassing her debut, CéU earned a Latin Grammy nomination in 2006 for Best New Artist.
Peter Allen
