She graduated from a youth music school in Moscow and became acquainted with a classic vocal school at a French chanson ensemble where she soloed, and after that studied vocals at Moscow Jazz and Variete College "Consort".
While at first her focus was more on French chanson (you can listen to Angelica's French cabaret program at http://www.myspace.com/angelicamatveeva2), retro pop, as well as Russian and Gypsy folk songs, becoming a laureate of many youth and student pop-music vocal contests, she gradually moved deeper into jazz. She worked with Russian, Turkish and French jazz bands.
After moving to Sweden, she has continued to familiarize herself with different jazz styles, from standards and bebop vocalese to modal and more contemporary jazz.
Angelica has also recently started writing her own music, as well as collaborating in the capacity of a co-composer and/or lyricist together with composers from Germany /Axel Fischer-Lange/, Norway /Ruben Benjaminsen/, Poland /Lukasz Sczygiel/ and Sweden /Peter Asplund; Björn Nyberg/.
Her most recent project - Swedish poetry goes jazz / Svensk lyrik möter jazz - is finding its way onto her debut album due in autumn 2010 and features Angelica's original compositions with jazz arrangements, based on the texts of famous Swedish XX century poets.
In November 2008 Angelica received the first prize at the Tyresö Jazz Vocal Contest in Sweden.
Beside her musical activities, Angelica Matveeva also obtained her M.Sc. in International Relations from Moscow City Government University of Management, studied Political Science at the University of Stockholm and is as of August 2009 a Master student at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.