Anna Toledo

Anna Toledo.. is an Actress/Singer/Songwriter born in Curitiba, Paraná (southern region of Brazil). She started her career on stage, then graduated as a Classical Singer, then turned her attention to Jazz, Pop Music and the wide world of musical possibilities… In her beginning she participated as a singing member of Vocal Brasileirão, under orientation of reknowned musical director Marcos Leite. She’s also been the crooner of Original Jazz Combo and toured with the band for four years. At that point, Anna won the Saul Trumpet Award for Best Pop Singer in Paraná and released her first solo album – Viva!(2001) .. .. Aiming for bigger – challenges, spaces, problems, distances, you name it – Anna moved to São Paulo and created the project The Jazz Heroes, with friends Celio Barros, Marcel Nadal e Ronaldo Palleze. They recorded an album and had lots of fun. Living in São Paulo, now, she’s been in successful theatrical productions, such as My Fair Lady, The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Threepenny Opera, among many others..... Her second solo album, Frescura (2005) reveals these many paths and point others to follow. Her songs show influences such as jazz, samba-canção and samba, and her lyrics translate her very own approach to quotidian life.