Celia Mara
Encyclopedia
Célia Mara is a Brazilian singer-songwriter
and producer
who has lived since the 1990s in Vienna
, Austria
and since 2003 also partly in Salvador, Bahia
.
mixed, out of rules, illegitimate, from an impure race...; or "nu Brazilian flavor", presenting a Latinized worldbeat - multicultural world music with strong Brazilian roots, singing in Portuguese, English, German, French and Spanish.
Célia Mara is part of the femous movement - femous: platform for famous female culture.
Célia Mara was born in Pedra Azul
, Minas Gerais
, a small town in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, one of today's poorest regions of the world. Politically, she grew up under a military regime. She began her musical career as a 14 years old girl, as an autodidact on the guitar. Highly influenced by the revolutonary Tropicalismo
, she started early to play songs from Caetano Veloso
, Gilberto Gil
, Chico Buarque
but also from Mercedes Sosa
and her own compositions on local events. In 1979 she was the first girl (and Female composer) of the Vale de Jequintinhonha participating to a regional event: "Los procurados" - "festivale"festivale, organized by Tadeu Martins. Later she lived in Belo Horizonte
,(had shows at cabare mineiro,"Palacio das Artes" performing as well in Rio de Janeiro
teatro Vila Lobos and Sao paulo
sesc Pompeia, presenting already a fusion between rural and urban songs. TV appearances such as in Brasil de Rolando Boldrin in Rede Globo
gave a push to her career.
Célia Mara's "bastardsound" is a central-European - Brazilian mix, connected with the Spanish mestiço-movement - Manu Chao
, Amparo Sanchez, Ojos de Brujo
, viennese fusion Joe Zawinul
and Brazilian music Tom Zé
, Vanessa da mata
, Seu Jorge
, Lenine
, Carlinhos Brown
.
Célia Mara is managed and produced since 1996 by Silvia Jura Santangelo. They run the label: globalista: no border media.
In 2011, on march 8th, Célia Mara got the Austrian Citizenship by honor.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
and producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
who has lived since the 1990s in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and since 2003 also partly in Salvador, Bahia
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...
.
Style
She defines herself as "bastardista": violating race , gender and class structures; a hybrid; mostly women made, mestizoMestizo
Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Latin America, Philippines and Spain for people of mixed European and Native American heritage or descent...
mixed, out of rules, illegitimate, from an impure race...; or "nu Brazilian flavor", presenting a Latinized worldbeat - multicultural world music with strong Brazilian roots, singing in Portuguese, English, German, French and Spanish.
Célia Mara is part of the femous movement - femous: platform for famous female culture.
Célia Mara was born in Pedra Azul
Pedra Azul
Pedra Azul is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the northeast of the state, in the Jequitinhonha River valley region. The population in 2007 was 24,851 in a total area of 1,619 km²....
, Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
, a small town in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, one of today's poorest regions of the world. Politically, she grew up under a military regime. She began her musical career as a 14 years old girl, as an autodidact on the guitar. Highly influenced by the revolutonary Tropicalismo
Tropicalismo
Tropicália, also known as Tropicalismo, is a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s and encompassed theatre, poetry, and music, among other forms. Tropicália was influenced by poesia concreta , a genre of Brazilian avant-garde poetry embodied in the works of Augusto de Campos, Haroldo...
, she started early to play songs from Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
, Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...
, Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
but also from Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Haydée Mercedes Sosa, known as La Negra, was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout South America and some countries outside the continent. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. She gave voice to songs written by both...
and her own compositions on local events. In 1979 she was the first girl (and Female composer) of the Vale de Jequintinhonha participating to a regional event: "Los procurados" - "festivale"festivale, organized by Tadeu Martins. Later she lived in Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
,(had shows at cabare mineiro,"Palacio das Artes" performing as well in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
teatro Vila Lobos and Sao paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
sesc Pompeia, presenting already a fusion between rural and urban songs. TV appearances such as in Brasil de Rolando Boldrin in Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
gave a push to her career.
Europe
In the early 1990s, her first European tour brought her to small clubs and minor festivals in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Northern Italy. In 1993, she moved to Austria, having a solo and duo-career, performing at important regional jazz festivals (f.e Jazzfestival–Burghausen, Jazzfest–Jena. In 1997, she founded the Austria-based Latin-band potênciaX - with Herwig Gradischnig, Ingrid Oberkanins and others. Using of sound-programs, she was influenced by bastardpop and the art of remixing.Célia Mara's "bastardsound" is a central-European - Brazilian mix, connected with the Spanish mestiço-movement - Manu Chao
Manu Chao
Manu Chao , is a French singer of Spanish roots . He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages...
, Amparo Sanchez, Ojos de Brujo
Ojos de Brujo
Ojos de Brujo is a nine-piece band from Barcelona, Spain, who describe their style as "jipjop flamenkillo"...
, viennese fusion Joe Zawinul
Joe Zawinul
Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...
and Brazilian music Tom Zé
Tom Zé
Tom Zé is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded...
, Vanessa da mata
Vanessa da Mata
Vanessa da Mata - with full name Vanessa Sigiane da Mata Ferreira - is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian MPB singer, songwriter...
, Seu Jorge
Seu Jorge
Seu Jorge is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor. Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in the city of Belford Roxo in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. He is considered by his fans a renewer of Brazilian pop samba...
, Lenine
Lenine
Lenine may refer to:*Lenine , Brazilian singer-songwriter*Lenine, Crimea, a town in the Kerch Peninsula*Lenine Raion, one of the 25 regions of Crimea...
, Carlinhos Brown
Carlinhos Brown
Carlinhos Brown is a Brazilian musician from Salvador, Bahia. He was born in Candeal Pequeno, a small neighbourhood in the Brotas area of Salvador de Bahia...
.
Célia Mara is managed and produced since 1996 by Silvia Jura Santangelo. They run the label: globalista: no border media.
In 2011, on march 8th, Célia Mara got the Austrian Citizenship by honor.
Discography
- Santa Rebeldia (2008; globaCD_SR08 globalista records distribution: hoanzl Austria, Indigo, Germany
- Bastardista (2005; globa_CD05 globalista:no border media),distribution: http://www.soulseduction.com
- Necessàrio - live at ORF Radiokulturhaus (2000; art libre/ORF) globa_CD00 globalista:no border media),distribution: http://www.soulseduction.com
- Hot Couture do samba (1998; art libre) globa_CD98 globalista:no border media),distribution: http://www.soulseduction.com
Awards
- 2000: Concerto Poll: best world music artist Austria
- 2003: herta pammer preis for the event: culture is our weapon
- 2006: copa da cultura,Brazilian culture export award for Bastardista