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Having had a promising starting among the big voices of MPB, Simone has recorded a lot more than 31 albums, increasingly abandoning the greater activist repertory of compositions by João Bosco/Aldir Blanc, Geraldo Vandré, Chico Buarque, and Milton Nascimento and only mainstream romantic tunes, with which she’s enjoyed international achievement. …

Well known because the business lead singer and co-songwriter of Child Abelha, among Brazil’s most widely used pop/rock and roll bands, Paula Toller sometimes stepped from her bandmates to record solo albums. Given birth to Paula Toller Amora on August 23, 1962, in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, she grew up …

Jazz vocalist Irene Nachreiner, who also performs beneath the name Irene, was created in LA, CA, and started to play the piano in age 4, commencing formal lessons with her uncle, the concert pianist Frank Youkstetter, when she was eight and continuing them through senior high school. Although she sang …