Marc Demuth & Sofia Ribeiro Duo

Since four years of intense musical complicity, which started in Barcelona, the Luxemburgish doublebass player Marc Demuth and the Portuguese singer Sofia Ribeiro have been developing common musical projects that performed through jazz clubs and festivals in Spain, Portugal, Holland, Luxembourg, France, Germany and U.S.A. A strong and successful collaboration that resulted in the recording of their first CD called “Dança da Solidão", live at the “L’Inoui” (Luxembourg) in October 2005.
This duo of young and very talented musicians with a solid jazz background lead us to an intimate journey into the world of composers of different styles, going from jazz standards to brazilian music, with some incursions on pop music and also the portuguese fado, with personal arrangements adapted to this peculiar setting. Details, humor and silence are gaining importance, with a lot of improvisation and communication between these two instruments that, beside being in opposite extremes of range, complement each other.
PRESS
"Here are well-known songs given new life by Sofia's beautiful voice and Marc's virtuosity. You'll want to listen to them again and again and you'll quickly understand the growing success of the band here and across Europe."
By Paula Telo Alves, "Contacto" (Luxembourg), about “Dança da Solidão”
"The intimacy she (Sofia) seeks is of another kind, perhaps more poetic, as in the manner in which she speaks the words and sings the lyrics. Such an expressive approach to singing poems and not only lyrics is evident in “Não é fácil o amor “, which is a hard poem to sing and I believe is even harder for a jazz singer to sing. Such beautiful interpretation! (…) She revealed a technically and emotionally irreproachable interpretation of standards: a magnificent “Angel Eyes” and an exquisite and touching “Blame it on my youth”. Sofia seems to infuse the lyrics with emotion and soul and not simply sing the melodies, and this makes all the difference. An excellent debut record for a Portuguese jazz singer!”
By Leonel Santos (Portugal), about “Dança da Solidão” real editor best profile tools real editor best profile tools