Catia Werneck

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Catia Werneck (* 1962 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian pop jazz and bossa singer . At first she also appeared as Catia , Catia Constantin and Catia Carvalho .

Live and act

Werneck comes from a family of musicians who only listened to jazz and samba . She learned to sing at the age of four and had her first studio appointments at the age of 16. She also learned the piano from the age of ten and then practiced Brazilian percussion . Together with her brother Carlos, she received first prize at the National Rio Festival of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1980 . She graduated from college as a history teacher.

At the age of 23 she was able to go on an international tour with other singers such as Marku Ribas and Maria Alcina for the first time. Then she worked for a month on the Broadway revue Black Scandals and then in Paris, where she also sang in a duo with Sarah Vaughan . Shortly thereafter, she was engaged for a three-month tour of America ( Brazil Tropical ), on which she met George Benson and Rachelle Ferrell . Then she decided to settle in France, where from 1990 she worked with the group Boto novos tempos and performed at the festivals in Nice and Montreux . Then she performed with Touré Kunda , Patrick Bruel , Chico Buarque and Gilbert Bécaud . As a songwriter and performer, she was involved in the score for Francis Veber's feature film Jaguar (1996) and other films under the name Catia Constantin-Carvalho .

In 1997 she recorded her first album, Estrêla do Sultão . In 2000 the album Saudades de Paris was released in Japan; this was followed by La vie en rose (2004, which was also published in Europe), as well as Naturalmente (2006), Catia canta Jobim (2007) and 2009 Obrigado Brasil (NDA). The album Primavera was created in collaboration with Vincent Bidal, then Best of Catia in 2011 . After the album Bossa Catia was only intended for the Japanese market, Tudo Bem followed in France in 2014 . In 2017 the album Jongando was released , which is committed to the traditional Brazilian Jongo , one of the forerunners of Samba.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Detailed biography
  2. ↑ Catia Constantin-Carvalho (Discogs)
personal data
SURNAME Werneck, Catia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constantin, Catia; Carvalho, Catia; Catia (other artist names)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian pop jazz and bossa singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro