“Anna Toledo tem voz clara e pegada inovadora†– TÃRIK DE SOUZA, Jornal do Brasil, 2006.
“Anna Toledo já era anunciada como revelação da cena musical do Paraná, em 2000, quando terminou de gravar seu disco de estréia. Em seu segundo álbum, Frescura, revela que se superou como cantora e compositora. E tem talento e inteligência para ir muito mais longe†– CARLOS CALADO, 2006
Anna Toledo is an Actress/Singer/Songwriter born in Curitiba, Paraná (southern region of Brazil). She started her career on stage, then graduated as a Classical Singer, then turned her attention to Jazz, Pop Music and the wide world of musical possibilities…
In her beginning, in Curitiba, she participated as a singing member of Vocal Brasileirão, under orientation of reknowned musical director Marcos Leite. She’s also been the crooner of Original Jazz Combo and toured with the band for four years. At that point, Anna won the Saul Trumpet Award for Best Pop Singer in Paraná and released her first solo album – Viva!(2001)
Aiming for bigger – challenges, spaces, problems, distances, you name it – Anna moved to São Paulo and created the project The Jazz Heroes, with friends Celio Barros, Marcel Nadal e Ronaldo Palleze. They recorded an album (still to be released) and had lots of fun.
At 2004, Anna won a Scholarship from Berklee College of Music. She went to Boston and studied improvisation and performance with Bob Stollof and Gabrielle Goodman.
Living in São Paulo for seven years, now, she’s been in successful theatrical productions, such as My Fair Lady, The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Threepenny Opera, among many others.
Her second solo album, Frescura (2005) reveals these many paths and point others to follow. Her songs show influences such as jazz, samba-canção and samba, and her lyrics translate her very own approach to quotidian life. Producer/Critic Nelson Motta included some of Anna’s songs in his radio-show Sintonia Fina. At the web radio, UOL That Jazz producer Rodrigo Barradas broadcasted a whole radio show about her.
MyGen
Profile Generator
