Thaïs Morell

Thaïs Morell was born in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, and belongs to this new generation of Brazilian musicians who have extensive training and ability to move with ease between various musical styles. With a stunning live show, at once intense and delicate, she mixes the “jazzy” chords of Bossa Nova with folklore and street rhythms from Brazil and elsewhere, achieving the most varied audiences. Standing out with a very rhythmic guitar, Thaïs plays with poise the roles of singer, guitarist and songwriter in a quartet formed by Ales Cesarini (double-bass), David Gadea (set of percussion) and Andrés Belmonte (flute and piano), excellent musicians from the spanish jazz scene. She studies music since age 9, from classical piano to rock guitar, going through all the Brazilian popular music and traditional/folklore from all over the world, and graduated as Music Teacher from the Faculdade de Artes do Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil). She left Brazil in 2007 to study voice and traditional singing at the prestigious Sibelius Academy Music University (Finland), which included a four months exchange program in the Department of Performing Arts of the University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana). She is a self-taught pandeiro and pífano player. She moved to Valencia (Spain) to study Masters degree in Ethnomusicology, and in only three years in Spanish territory, she managed, independently, to have her album in FNAC, build a loyal following and collect positive reviews. In this ambient, arrived in May 2012 the acclaimed album “Cancioneira”, from Valencian label (that needs no introduction) Sedajazz Records, a surprising self-production, which reveals from the first to last song a great potential artist who sings, plays, composes and produces. Hard to categorize, the album includes powerful collaborations: the Spanish jazz guitarist Ximo Tebar, the French cellist Matthieu Saglio (Jerez-Texas), Portuguese/Angolan bassist Rogério Campas, and Spanish flamenco guitarist Juan de Pilar, many colours well-balanced in Cancioneira’s combination of Brazilian music, world music and jazz. Main live concerts: Le Baiser Salé (Paris, France), Festival Virada Cultural Paulista (Brazil), Film Festival Montjuïc and Festival Brazilian Day (Barcelona), Round of World-Music of Bilbao (Bilbao), Circuit of Jazz IVAM, with Ximo Tébar, Godejazz Festival (Godella), Botanical Garden Jazz Festival, Jimmy Glass Jazz Bar e Café Mercedes Jazz (Valencia), among others. Voice and music theory teacher at Sedajazz Escuela (www.sedajazz.es); Thaïs has offered Samba and/or Bossa-Nova Vocal Workshops (Portuguese, Spanish and English) in Finland, Estonia, Spain, and Ghana. As a singer of Bossa-Nova and other Brazilian styles she performed in various european festivals: Art Goes Kapakka Festival (Helsinki, Finland), Pori Jazz Festival (Pori, Finland), Visioon Jazz Festival (Sauë, Estonia), PargiBossa Festival (Talina, Estonia), Festival de Jazz IVAM (Valencia, Spain), Ciclo de World-Music Centro Cultural Carmen (Valencia, Spain), Ronnie Scott’s Bar (London, Inglaterra), and also on Alliance Française d’Accra (Accra, Ghana).