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Hot, new genre-busting singer, guitarist and composer eliane combines Brazilian and Latin rhythms along with contemporary American pop and jazz vocals to create a fresh sound, completely her own.
"...eliane is an excellent musician." Randy Brecker
"eliane rocks"Marc Ribot
"...one of the most all around talented artists I have ever written with."Eric Sanicola
Eliane, singer, guitarist, composer and lyricist was born in Switzerland and moved to New York in 1998 to attend the New School University for Jazz and Contemporary music from which she graduated in 2000.
Eversince she has been an active force in the New York City Brazilian, Jazz and Latin scene and performs her own music in New Yorks most famous clubs and lounges. She regularly tours all over Switzerland, Europe, the US and Canada with musicians from America, Brazil, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. She recorded or collaborated with greats such as Randy Brecker, Marc Ribot, Bill Ware, Jovino Santos Neto, Michael Carvin, Marcus Strickland and many more and she continues to be a sought after artist by Producers like Eric Sanicola and Bryan Lurie and DJs like David Last. At the moment she is part of several successful bands like Bill Wares Urban Vibes and SWISS MISS. Her own band consists of the best musicians the city has to offer like the two female bass players Jennifer Vincent and Hagar Ben Ari.
Some of the venues Eliane has played either as a band leader or as a featured artist are: the Blue Note, the Jazz Standard, Joes Pub, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, SOB’s, Cornelias Street Cafe, Cutting Room, Knitting Factory, live at rose, Ace of Clubs, Carlitos Cafe e Galeria, Satalla, Barbes, Caffe Vivaldi, Puppets, Acentos Poetry Club, Esperanto, Sushi Samba, Bed, Megu, Barmache and so forth. Eliane played in front of thousands of people at major events like the reopening of the Silverstein Building at the World Trade Center, alongside Lou Reed, Susan Vega, the Brazilian Girls and others, the Swiss American Film festival and the Swiss Peaks festival in New York Eliane and her band entertain as well numerous weddings, private and corporate parties for companies such as Time Warner Cable, Bvlgari, C.F. Bucherer, the Rose d'Or television award, Swiss Tourism, the Swiss Society, the Swiss Embassy, Conde Nast etc.
She also teaches music and and gives workshops, for example at the famous music weeks in Arosa, Switzerland every summer.
Eliane has been intervied by countless news papers and Radio Stations like the Swiss National Radio DRS and the State of Wallis (Switzerland) biggest Radio Station Radio Rottu. Her original songs are being broadcast by radio stations aound the world and she appeared as a guest artist at a concert of Jovino Santos Neto that won a television award for best musical performance. Her song as if can be heard in the new movie Approaching Union Square by film maker Marc Meyers and eliane can be seen in the Pacha massive video “don’t let go†on mtv.
Eliane recorded two CDs of her own with her original Material and appeared on many other CD productions as a featured singer or guitarist.
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