Summary
Singing in her native Portuguese or in English or vocalizing without words, Claudia Villela can remind you of Flora Purim one moment and Meredith Monk the next. But her intelligence, playfulness, and the quality of her voice are all Villela.
While her musical sensibility is undeniably jazzy, the singer and composer relates to rock influences more than to the music of jazz legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.See the full content of this document
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Blame It On the Batucada
Villela performs a duo of duets Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10
and 11, in Santa Fe with guitarist Bruce Dunlap, and she leads a vocal workshop Sunday, Nov. 12. A native of Rio de Janeiro, she grew up hearing her father playing the harmonica, her mother singing, and mu...See the full content of this document
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