Artist

Regina Machado

Genre: International ,Brazilian
Origin: U.S.A
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An opera singer’s daughter, Regina Machado completed her music studies at the State University of Campinas, São paulo (UNICAMP) and later trained in vocal jazz in the U.S. She entered the professional scene in 1981 as a member of Tom Zé’s band and subsequently lent her voice to Cristóvão Bastos, Marco Pereira and Gal Costa. Esteemed as an instructor, she counted Mônica Salmaso among her pupils. The year 2000 saw the release of her first solo album, Sobre a Paixão, which mixed original material and songs by Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque with vocal chamber settings of texts by Heinrich Heine and Robert Schumann.