One of jazz’s leading singers and interpreters, Luciana Souza has been releasing acclaimed recordings since 2002, including her six Grammy®-nominated records Brazilian Duos, North and South, Duos II, Tide, Duos III and The Book of Chet. Her debut recording for Universal Jazz France, The New Bossa Nova (2007), was met with widespread critical acclaim. Of her 2015 release, Speaking in Tongues, The New York Times said: “Luciana Souza has used her voice as an instrument of empathy and intimacy, cultural linkage and poetic disquisition…singing wordlessly but with full expressive intent.” Her critically acclaimed recording, The Book of Longing, saw Ms. Souza immersed in the world of poetry again. She set poems by Leonard Cohen, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Christina Rossetti to music. Her 2020 recording, Storytellers, had her collaborating with Grammy Award Winning composer and arranger Vince Mendoza, and the Cologne-based WDR Big Band, on a tribute to the great songwriters of Brazil, including Jobim, Gilberto Gil, Chico Pinheiro, Djavan, Guinga, and many others.

Trio Corrente – Fabio Torres, Paulo Paulelli and Edu Ribeiro – have performed together over the last two decades with a Who’s Who of Brazilian artists and amazing their loyal following in Brazil and Europe. They are the group of choice for musicians such as Paquito de Rivera, Rosa Passes and Ron Carter, who confessed being “deeply impressed by the quality and maturity of the Trio.” With de Rivera, Trio Corrente won two Grammy® Awards and toured the world.