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On her third day in Los Angeles, Carla crashed Madonna’s invite-only audition.
Thinking that LA must be like this all the time, she never went back to Chicago. Within three months she was touring as a backup singer with British one-hit-wonder Curiosity Killed the Cat and then with REO Speedwagon and Sergio Mendez. The short-lived Sergio Mendez gig brought it all home for Carla, a native of São Paulo, Brazil, and she spent the next two years singing Brazilian music around Los Angeles. Carla also contributed her voice to films, television, commercials, and an occasional album like Gino Vannelli’s Inconsolable Man and Jon Anderson’s Deseo. Then Billy Idol whisked her away for the year-long, Grammy nominated, full-blown chaos that was the Charmed Life Tour.
After Charmed Life, Carla joined Christopher Cross’s band and continued to sing on commercials and film. She appeared in an episode of 7th Heaven as Joy Enriquez’s backup singer, in a Mariah Carey music video, and on Jay Leno's Tonight Show backing up soul legend Solomon Burke . Equally at home in the Latin world, Carla sang backups for Mexico’s Christian Castro and recorded with Javier Iglesias and Brazil’s Marcelo Augusto. She also joined a team of top session singers who recorded regularly for Disney in Spanish.
When Carla turned the focus on her own music, she released two consecutive, critically acclaimed CDs that blend Brazilian and American pop. Her 2007 full length CD “Quero Saber†garnered critical acclaim from respected magazines like URB and Global Rhythm as well as a full page write-up in the prevalent Latin newspaper, La Opinión. While recording her first CD, Carla traveled with Gary Sinise’s band and sang on Robert Towne’s film Ask The Dusk with Salma Hayak and Collin Ferrell. She also took a teaching gig at Flea’s (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Silverlake Conservatory of Music.
While recording Quero Saber, Carla reunited with longtime friend Mike Patton (Faith No More, Peeping Tom) to collaborate on a hauntingly beautiful recording and live video of John Lennon’s “Julia.†Pioneer electric violinist Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Flock) also appears on the title track.
Carla currently fronts the band Electrotropic-Brasil whose debut performance included the legendary team of Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. By chance, several reviews of Quero Saber compare Carla to vintage Flora.