My first instrument was the piano, which I begun studying at the age of 6. I begun singing in 1989, in a friends' band, who played covers of standard pop tunes. We were all beggining our jazz studies in Escola de Jazz do Porto. Some of the members of this band are now great names of portuguese jazz and classical - Paulo Gomes (piano), José LuÃs Rego (-guitar! - and sax) and Antº Augusto Aguiar (bass). Slowly our repertory turned to jazz tunes and I begun regarding singing as a possible option.
I completed my studies at the Oporto Conservatory and then I took classical singing lessons for several years, first with SÃlvia Mateus and then with her father, Mário Mateus. I had the chance to study with jazz singers Norma Winstone and Dominique Eade.
My other teachers were videos and cd's of my favorite singers and instrumentalists and, of course, all the good musicians I have had the chance to work with: Paulo Gomes, Pedro Barreiros, Bruno Pedroso, José LuÃs Rego, Bernardo Moreira, Rolf Delfos, Carlos Bica, Paulo Pinto, Mário Santos, Pere Loewe, Henry Lowther, Maria João, Paula Oliveira, Julian Arguelles, Jorge Reis , just to mention a few.
But the most important names are those who, along all these years I've been singing, have joined my projects in a regular basis: Besides Paulo Gomes and Pedro Barreiros, I'd like to mention Zé Lima, Mário Teixeira, Kiko, Susana Baldaque, Paulo Coelho, Hugo Carvalhais and my dear late friend Eduardo Santos- these, have taught me more than musical stuff - they are my friends.
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