Teresa Gabriel

Management::Filipe Larsen
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Produtora:::FLC - Audiovisuais
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Teresa Gabriel's musical path started at a very young age.
She started to write songs as soon as she started to learn guitar at the age of 9, and piano at 12. In her early teens she played in rock bands as a guitarist and in celtic bands as a percussionist.
When she was 15 she started to play her own songs in competitions throughout the country, inspired by a growing love for folk music and singer-songwriters, mainly Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Kristin Hersch, Jane Siberry, Jewel and Paula Cole.
She was classicaly trained in voice at the same time she was studying Philosophy and Journalism in University, while having some experiences in theater as well, as a writer and actress.
In 2001, at only 18, her song "Dream Sister" was included in a national compilation for new talent, "OPTIMUS 2001", alongside such now big names in Portugal, like Terrakota and Toranja.
This opened the doors to play the FNAC circuit, small theaters, and the biggest festivals (Vilar de Mouros 2001, Sudoeste 2002), culminating in her opening for Portishead's Beth Gibbons in the coliseums of Lisbon and Porto, for 3000 people with great reviews and feedback, in April 2003.
In 2003 and 2004 she travelled around Portugal, and spent some time in Coimbra and Porto, expanding horizons, and also playing in small clubs and theaters with different formations of of musicians (sometimes violin, cello, guitar and bass, others just a percussionist) and busking from time to time, but it was time to go further.
In 2005 and 2006 she embarked on a sort of "musical pilgrimage", and she became nomadic for two years, falling in love with the magic of Barcelona and it's bubbling and spontaneous artistic scene, and discovering the immense acoustic circuit of London.
She also became fascinated with world music, especially Bulgarian choirs and Indian music, and started to collaborated with the Hinduistanic duo of sitar and tablas ALAP, recording the vocal track on their debut album "Thar". They played in Belem Cultural Centre is Lisbon, in the Andanças Festival 2005 and Colombo Festival 2005 in the island of Madeira.
She also collaborated with Olive Tree (drums and didgeridoo project), Orchid Star (having played with them in the Kingston Green Fair and in The Sunrise Celebration in 2006), and Jamie Woon.
2006 was a great year with lots of expansion and creativity, with a reborn sence of freedom, discovering new music and new cultures, playing in alternative spaces in Portugal like Contagiarte and 555, the huge BOOM festival, the Vagos acoustic festival and Andanças festival.
Teresa also explored the surrealism of Mexico and the mystical music of Turkey - she attended the Mevlana festival, researching Sufi music and Rumi's poetry.
The final part of 2006 and beggining of 2007 was filled with gigs in England (The Synergy Project, The Ginglik, The Vibe Bar, The Joogleberry Playhouse in Brighton, Rubicon, Green Note, The winelight club in Norwich, Cargo, The comedy pub, Guerrilla Zoo performance space, Sunday Sounds, Vortex, Ramjam in Kingston, Small World stage @ the 491 gallery).
The feedback from people has been very good, praising Teresa's heart-felt poetic lyrics, her beautiful-spine-tingly-powerful voice, and her very original guitar style ( folk? funk? flamenco? rock?) - sometimes percussive, sometimes developing into rich and unusual goosebumpy inventive harmonic progressions like a small orchestra of its own.
Teresa played a track with Terrakota in the release of their album in Aula Magna in May, collaborated with Ruben Branco from OCO in the musical-performance MYTHOFACTA, played in CREW HASSAN, MUSIC BOX and MAXIME, CONTAGIARTE, PROJECTO SINERGIA, CABARET EVOÉ.
Is also collaborating with AMBIENS INDAGES, a chill out project which has played in AVIS a RASGAR 2007, FREEDOM festival 2007, and the Synergy Project in 2006. They will also play in BOOM 2008.
Teresa is now working with kids, organizing arts events in Lisbon (synergic nights), collaborating with a dance group.
She does sound healing and human orchestra workshops,a more therapeutic, catharthic, playful and instinctive aproach to music.
She also does ayurvedic massage
To hear collaborations with other projects go to these links:
www.myspace.com/ambiens "Full Moon"
www.myspace.com/spiritualhitek "Forbidden Love"
www.myspace.com/alapmusic "O luar sobre o trilho"
Get Your Own! | View Slideshow"Green Note Acoustic Cafe - 4th May 2006..." Next we visited Portugal with the stunning Teresa Gabriel who played a mixture of self penned and traditional numbers and sang so beautifully that it would have been easy to just kick back and listen to her all evening. A well deserved encore and a definite invitation for her to join us again..."