Mariella Santiago

You just returned from Brazil this past week. Were you working on something while you were there?

AL: A woman named Mariella Santiago, a really great singer. We’re doing some demos so that we can look for a record company.”
Arto Lindsay to *The Morning News, New York.
(L;90th)

- The Morning News

« Mariella Santiago the pearl from Salvador, live - She started out strong with her debut album(2002) inviting Hermeto Pascoal, Carlinhos Brown and Dj Dolores, three celebrities of brazilian music(…)Her inspiration comes mainly from the afro Bahia, afoxés, samba reggaes and other local rithynms, but she also carries a repertoire of her own, shaped by voyages and encouters"
Mariella Santiago la perle de Salvador en live- Elle a frappé fort dés son premier disque(2002), invitant Hermeto Pascoal,Carlinhos Brown et Dj Dolores, trois somnités du Brésil(...)Son inspiration première est celle de l’afro – Bahia, afoxé et autres samba reggae, mais elle dispose d’un repertoire trés personel, façonné à travers voyages et rencontres »
- Remy Kolpa Kopoul Official Profile

Mariella:O show como obra viva - Cantora baiana traz à São Paulo seu "modo de fazer jazzístico".
- O Estado de São Paulo - printed/online

Young artists, like Mariella Santiago,an avant-garde singer and composer typically seen in Salvador’s small clubs
or on the streets of the poor fishermen’s neighborhood where she has her studio.During her performance at the market, she swiftly paced the stage of the Castro Alves Theatre, an edgy-chic figure
wrapped in a gown of translucent plastic. Backlit by images of street people and the children who make her workshop their second home, she sang about mean streets and sweet dreams to a complex cascade of sounds generated by computer, synthesizers and electro-acoustic instruments. Out in
the lobby, her friends sold her CDs.

By Suzane Charlé to Ford Foundation Report Spring 2002,page 13,"In Brazil a New Market for Performing Artists - - Suzane Charlé (Nobel Winner Stiglitz's argument with IMF)

"Come early to see Mariella.She is an excelent Singer who will soon be launching her second single and we are planning a few songs together.

"Cheguem cedo pra ver Mariella. Ela é uma exelente cantora, breve estará lançando seu segundo CD e estamos combinando de fazer alguma coisa juntos”.

Chico César to Jornal A Tarde(newspaper) Salvador.May 16th 2008 - Jornal A Tarde,Salvador, Bahia

"Come early to see Mariella.She is an excelent Singer who will soon be launching her second single and we are planning a few songs together.

"Cheguem cedo pra ver Mariella. Ela é uma exelente cantora, breve estará lançando seu segundo CD e estamos combinando de fazer alguma coisa juntos”.

Chico César to Jornal A Tarde(newspaper) Salvador.May 16th 2008 - Correio da Bahia

(...)Dos damas, Mariella Santiago y Andreia Dias, también suben por primera vez a un escenario barcelonés con voces y estilos bien distintos. //
(...)Sala Apolo de Barcelona el próximo domingo 9 de noviembre. Un total de ocho actuaciones de forma ininterrumpida nos hará viajar de tierras pernambucanas a Río y de las raíces a lo último que se está cociendo en el país más musical de latinoamérica. Para empezar, Mundo Livre S.A.: uno de los máximos exponentes del manguebeat brasileño nos visita por primera vez(...)

Maria Jo Lopez Vilatalta,para La Morocha, November.1st, 2008 - La Morocha

"A diva is born. Does it seem exagerated? Not at all. Today nothing compares to Mariella from the Bay of All Saints and artists"
“`Nasce uma diva` Exagero? Nenhum. Nada existe hoje 
que se compare a Mariella na Bahia de Todos os Santos e artistas”


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DIVA

Profile:Singer and songwriter Mariella Santiago, 37, is a diva not only for being a celebrity.She is one of Bahia's most complete performing artists and holds in her hands a mistery: the key to keep music as an everyday life thing.

Althoug she doesn’t play of an instrument, she creates her melodies by ear, speaks 5 foreign languages and uses a lot of her reading to write her songs.She wrote her first poem at the age of 7(…)

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Perfil: A cantora Mariella Santiago sabe combinar como poucas a música e a própria vida e é uma das artistas mais completas da cena musical baiana

A cantora e compositora Mariella Santiago 37, é diva não por ser célebre, mas por ter nas mãos um mistério que não discocia o canto e vida.Ela não toca instrumentos creates melodias de ouvido , fala 5 idiomas e escreveu seu primeiro poema com 7 anos e usa muito de sua vivencia literária nas canções(...)

By Maria Santossa to Jornal a A Tarde(Bahia,Brazil)on February 8th 2010.

ps:This text has been extracted from a two paper's full page profile. - Jornal A tarde - Bahia 2/8/2010