Vânia Bastos is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian singer, who began her professional life with the Vanguarda Paulista avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 movement in the early 1980s.

Biography

Bastos moved to São 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...

 in 1975, to study sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 and singing

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

. In 1980, she began her career as vocalist of Arrigo Barnabé

Arrigo Barnabé

Arrigo Barnabé is a Brazilian musician and actor. His best-known record is perhaps the critically acclaimed "Clara Crocodilo". His music is best known for having a heavily experimental approach, in which the author uses dodecaphonism and atonalism as main principles of composition...

's Sabor de Veneno band. She was the main soloist

Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

 of Barnabé's 1983 album

Album

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 Tubarões Voadores, and participated in presentations and recordings with Itamar Assumpção

Itamar Assumpção

Itamar Assumpção , born in Tietê, SP, Brazil. Itamar was a Brazilian songwriter and composer, who stood out in the independent/alternative music scene in the 80s a 90s, especially in São Paulo...

, the other important name of the Vanguarda. She also recorded with bands of Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese.-Overview:Rock entered the Brazilian music scene in 1956, with the screening of the film The Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which would later be covered in Portuguese by Nora...

 as Magazine and Joelho de Porco. From 1986, she began to record her own works.

Discography

Title	Year	Record label	Media
Vânia Bastos	1986	Copacabana	LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
Eduardo Gudin & Vânia Bastos	1989	Eldorado	LP & CD
Vânia Bastos	1990	Eldorado	LP
Cantando Caetano	1992	Colúmbia	CD
Canta mais	1994	Velas	CD
Vânia Bastos & cordas. Canções de Tom Jobim	1995	Velas	CD
Diversões não eletrônicas	1997	Velas	CD
Belas feras	1999	PlayArte Music	CD
Vânia Bastos canta Clube da Esquina Clube da Esquina Clube da Esquina was a Brazilian music artists collective, originating in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is also the name of a double album from 1972...	2002		CD

External links

-Vânia Bastos in MPBNet