Biography
Daúde, a Brazilian vocalist, has built an international career by fusing Brazilian roots traditions with electronica textures. Her live appearances have included the Summer Stage Festival in New York, Roskilde Festival in Copenhagen, Montreux Festival in Switzerland, and Palais de Beaux-Arts in Brussels. She has appeared in twelve countries across North America and Europe: the United States, Norway, Denmark, Holland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal. Across the continent she has been featured on roughly fifty radio and television programs.
The daughter of an army officer, she relocated with her family to Rio at age eleven. When her father later returned with the rest of the household to Salvador, she stayed behind in Rio. There she studied voice under baritone Paulo Fortes and scenic arts while completing a degree in literature. She performed at every available chance before releasing her debut album, Daúde, in 1995. The record earned the Sharp prize and the APCA award from São Paulo’s Association of Art Critics for its contemporary pop reinterpretation of folkloric material.
Her 1997 follow-up, Daúde #2, found international traction through several tracks: a version of Myriam Makeba’s hit “Pata Pata,” the Gilberto Gil/Liminha composition “Vamos Fugir” performed as a duet with Djavan, Herbert Vianna’s “Une Chanson Triste,” and an electronic treatment of the jongo “As Baratas” by Darcy da Serrinha. Simbora, issued in 1999, reworked material from the earlier albums into a dance-focused set.
The daughter of an army officer, she relocated with her family to Rio at age eleven. When her father later returned with the rest of the household to Salvador, she stayed behind in Rio. There she studied voice under baritone Paulo Fortes and scenic arts while completing a degree in literature. She performed at every available chance before releasing her debut album, Daúde, in 1995. The record earned the Sharp prize and the APCA award from São Paulo’s Association of Art Critics for its contemporary pop reinterpretation of folkloric material.
Her 1997 follow-up, Daúde #2, found international traction through several tracks: a version of Myriam Makeba’s hit “Pata Pata,” the Gilberto Gil/Liminha composition “Vamos Fugir” performed as a duet with Djavan, Herbert Vianna’s “Une Chanson Triste,” and an electronic treatment of the jongo “As Baratas” by Darcy da Serrinha. Simbora, issued in 1999, reworked material from the earlier albums into a dance-focused set.
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