Leila Pinheiro

Leila Pinheiro is a renowned singer who established a name in bossa nova and began to explore the Brazilian pop field. At ten, she started her music research. Four years afterwards, she empty music theory and began to possess piano classes with Guilherme Coutinho. In 1978, she enrolled on the FEMP medication training course, abandoning it 2 yrs afterwards, when she released her profession in the present Sinal de Partida, at Belém’s Teatro da Paz. Within the next calendar year, she transferred to Rio de Janeiro RJ and separately documented her first record, Leila Pinheiro, which acquired particular guests Tom Jobim, João Donato, Ivan Lins, Francis Hime, and Toninho Horta. The record was released 2 yrs later, on the Sala Funarte (Rio), with visitor musician the composer/performer Sérgio Ricardo. In 1984, she performed with Zimbo Trio in Colombia (Bogota and Barranquilla). In 1985, she gained third place as well as the Revelation Vocalist prizes at Television Globo’s Celebration dos Festivais with “Verde” (Eduardo Gudin/J. C. Costa Netto). Olho Nu (1986) was the initial record after the agreement with Polygram, for the reason that calendar year, and acquired Pat Metheny in a particular appearance. Released concurrently in Japan, the record yielded an invitation for the 17th Yamaha Celebration as Brazil’s representative, where she was appointed the very best interpreter. In 1987 she was honored using the Villa-Lobos trophy as the female revelation of the entire year by ABPD (Country wide Association of Record Makers). She participated in the OTI Event (Portugal). In 1988, she released her third recording, Alma, and toured Brazil with Wagner Tiso in the Projeto Pixinguinha. In 1989, she was made by Roberto Menescal and documented and released a bossa nova recording in Japan, while she released Benção Bossa Nova in Brazil. Twelve months later, the recording reached the full total of 200,000 offered copies, the largest selling of the bossa nova recording in Brazil until after that. In the Noite da Bossa Nova (1st Rio Show Event) performed along with Carlos Lyra, Verônica Sabino, Leny Andrade, Operating-system Cariocas, and Johnny Alf. Outras Caras, her 5th recording, was also made by Roberto Menescal and released in Japan. In 1993, her last recording through Polygram, Coisas perform Brasil, earned the yellow metal record. For the reason that yr, she performed in Belgium, Netherlands, France, and Spain. In 1994, the 1st recording through EMI-Music, Isso é Bossa Nova, also gained a yellow metal record. 2 yrs later, she documented the Catavento E Girassol recording, focused on the functions by the duo Guinga/Aldir Blanc. In 1997, she participated, with Baden Powell, Toquinho, and Carlos Lyra, in the tribute present to Vinícius de Moraes Vivendo Vinícius (Metropolitan, Rio). In Sept, she visited the U.S. where she followed Ivan Lins in his American tour as a particular visitor. They performed in 11 towns and shut the tour in the Blue Take note (NY). In Oct, she participated in the display All Jobim, in the Carnegie Hall, also in NY, where Ivan Lins, Dori Caymmi, Al Jarreau, Joe Lovano, Eugene Malov, and Sharon Isbin also performed. Within the next yr, she released Na Ponta da Língua, devoted mostly to modern pop composers. Also for the reason that yr, she documented a TV unique for the Portuguese route RTP; in August, she performed in the Lincoln Middle for 8,000 people, combined with the additional Brazilian performers Bebel Gilberto, Patricia Marx, Carol Saboya, as well as the Quinteto D’Ellas; and released the ninth recording, Na Ponta da Língua. In 1999, she performed, in various displays, with Ivan Lins, MPB-4, Guinga, Paulo Bellinati, Lula Galvão, Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica, Paulo Sérgio Santos, Baden Powell, Tet Vocal, Nelson Faria, Luiz Brasil, Roberto Menescal, Flávio Venturini, Margareth Menezes, Banda Doá, and Madredeus. In Israel, she sang in the Jerusalem International Convention Middle Binyael Ha’ooma, followed from the Jerusalem Symphonic Orchestra. Also for the reason that yr, she participated for the Compact disc Casa de Samba 3, in duet using the sambista Walter Alfaiate. In 2000, she released her tenth recording, Reencontro, focused on Gonzaguinha’s and Ivan Lins’s compositions.