Sabrina Rabello - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Born and raised within a family of Flamenco performers, Sabrina draws her vibrant musical inspirations from experiences of having lived in Brazil, the United States, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Contrary to the popular singer-songwriter stereotype, Sabrina did not begin her musical training at the young age of five or six, but much later in her adult life. Instead, her youthful passions lead her to pursue higher studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. Sabrina is completing her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the world famous Imperial College London in England.
Nevertheless, a mezze of hard work, dedication and perseverance, with a healthy portion of talent proved to be the winning recipe for Sabrina to break into the European music scene.
Her musical influences span from the classical to contemporary, from Nina Simone and Django Reinhardt to Tori Amos and John Mayer. As a Brazilian at heart, Bossa Nova and other Brazilian music styles have also deeply influenced her musicianship. This eclectic blend has helped define Sabrina's unique and emotionally-intelligent musical aesthetic, which is evident in all her songs and defies any rudimentary classification of her music into one genre or another.
Sabrina's repertoire has grown to include collaborations with well acclaimed musicians such as Flamenco guitar player and composer Fernando de La Rua, Conrado Goys and Edu Krieger. She has performed in venues including London, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid.
She has a self-titled EP released on iTunes and Amazon.com . The songs were recorded and produced at Oca Studios in Sao Paulo, Brazil. They are a stepping-stone for Sabrina to launch her music career, emphasising the importance of drawing influences from jazz, early rock & roll and pop by contextualizing these in a modern setting.
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Member Since: 7/19/2007
Band Website: sabrinarabello.com
Band Members:
All music & lyrics by Sabrina Rabello, except:
Cinthia: music (Sabrina Rabello/Fernando de La Rua)
Big Ben: music(Sabrina Rabello/Blue Suzzanne/Conrado Goys) and lyrics (Kartik Anand/Sabrina Rabello/Blue Suzzanne)
Once upon a Paris: lyrics (Blue Suzzanne)

All Songs recorded at Oca studios, Sao Paulo.

ONCE UPON A PARIS:
Sabrina Rabello (voice), Conrado Goys (arrangement & guitar), Bernando Goys (bass), Thiago Rabello (drums), Dado (clarinet).

CINTHIA:
Sabrina Rabello (voice), Fernando de La Rua (arrangement & guitar) and Katia Almeida (cello).

BIG BEN:
Sabrina Rabello (voice), Conrado Goys (arrangement & guitar), Bernardo Goys (bass), Marcio Roldan (keys), Thiago Rabello (drums)

SCHRODINGER'S BOX:
Sabrina Rabello (voice, piano), Katia Almeida (cello), Fernando de La Rua (arrangement)

Image is Boy with hood by Annelies Middel
Reproduced with permission, author's rights are protected by Pictoright.

TIME:
Sabrina Rabello (voice), Conrado Goys (guitar & arrangement), Bernardo Goys (bass), Thiago Rabello (drums), Marcio Roldan (keys), Bruno Prado (percussion)

Influences: Fernando de La Rua, Madeleine Peyroux, Achinoam Nini & Gil Dor, Paolo Conte, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, Seu Jorge, Marisa Monte, Piazzola, Django Reinhardt, Ton Jobim, John Mayer, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Aimee Mann, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell
and anything that sounds good to me!
Sounds Like: "ONCE UPON A PARIS"
Recorded Live at Goodenough College, London on March 18th 2008.
Sabrina Rabello (voice), Blue Suzzanne (lyrics), Oleg Lapidus (clarinet), Fernando de La Rua (guitar), Andres Ticino (percussion)

"CINTHIA"
Recorded Live at Goodenough College, London on March 18th 2008.
Sabrina Rabello (music, lyrics & voice), Oleg Lapidus (clarinet), Fernando de La Rua (guitar), Andres Ticino (percussion)

"DRURY LANE"
Recorded live at Contra Club, Madrid on September 5th 2007.
Sabrina Rabello (music, lyrics & voice), Fernando de La Rua (guitar & arrangement), Guiliano Pereira (saxaphone), Andre Belizzero (percussion), Pablo Jones (percussion) and Bruno de Olinda (bass)

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

About Backstage Passes and post-victory Blog entry

Hello everyone!! What an absolutely surreal week it has been!! I won on Slicethepie! This was the third or fourth time I submitted my songs to a scout room, but the first time I actually made it to th...
Posted by Sabrina Rabello on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:00 PST

New videos

Hi Guys,I have a couple of new videos that I have uploaded (and some in the process of uploading) to Youtube for your viewing pleasure :)The first is 'Cinthia', recorded right here in London at Gooden...
Posted by Sabrina Rabello on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:23:00 PST

Approximately 2 more days of voting on Slice The Pie!! - Posted 13th August 2008

I would like to thank all of you who have been so supportive, so kind in voting for me! Some of you have really gone out of your way to help me out and to raise support concerning this competition. I ...
Posted by Sabrina Rabello on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:07:00 PST

Last show

The show is called "Nuances a duo" guitar maverick Fernando de La Rua in a duo collaboration with sax player Giuliano Pereira in a fantastic project mixing original themes with flamenco, bossa nova, c...
Posted by Sabrina Rabello on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:13:00 PST