CITY HALL BORIS HRISTOV, 8:00 P.M.

Rosalia De Souza was born in Rio de Janeiro, in the Nilopolis district famous for its samba school Beija-Flor. Her great passion for music was cultivated by her father. In 1989 she travelled to Italy and eventually moved to Rome to study musical theory, Cuban percussions, jazz and jazz history. Throughout this first year she also started to work with musicians playing Brazilian Music. Among them is Italian pianist Giovanni Guaccero who gave her the possibility to sing in the most important jazz clubs of the capital. Her typical repertoire included classical Brazilian authors like Tom Jobin, Baden Powell, Joao Gilberto, Sergio Mendes, Edu Lobo, Joyce, Toquinho, Vinicius De Moraes, Djavan, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gill, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento and many other less renowned artists.
In the second half of the 1990’s Rosalia participated in different projects, collaborations and festivals, among which Nicola Conte (in the project Fez), recordings with Quintetto X and Intensive Jazz Sextet and a concert in Barbican Center, London. In 2001 she was invited to represent Italy at the Montreux Jazz Festival along with Schema Sextet and Nicola Conte.
Garota Moderna is the debut album by De Souza, released in 2003, followed closely by Garota Diferente (2004), an album containing nu-jazz versions of her songs by artists like Five Corners quintet, Big Bang, Povo, Trüby Trio and The Dining Rooms, among others.
In 2013, DJs and producers Pilots on Dope from Vienna invited Rosalia to record three tracks on their album Udopeia, released in 2014 on Verve/Universal Records.