Miriam Aïda AfroSamba
Malmö, Skåne, Sweden | Established. Jan 01, 2014 | INDIE
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Miriam Ada Discography
2003 My kind of world (JAZZ)
2004 Eletrificacao ( with A Bossa Eletrica)(BRASILIAN)
2005 Live at the Palladium (JAZZ)
2006 Meu Brasil (BRASILIAN)
2008 Come on home (JAZZ)
2010 Letras Ao Brasil( Miriam Ada Trio) (BRASILIAN)
2010 Do Norte ( A Bossa Eletrica) (BRASILIAN)
2012 Visans Vsen ( Miriam Ada Trio) (BRASILIAN)
2014 de Lei! (Miriam Ada AfroSamba Orchestra)(BRASILIAN)
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Miriam Ada one of Swedens most popular singers with an
international career has performed in Japan, UK, Brazil, France,
Spain, USA, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Germany and of course all
around Sweden and Scandinavia. After her time exploring the
music traditions of Brazil and her success with the albums Meu
Brasil and Letras ao Brasil she has been spotted in several national
TV shows.
Miriam s extensive talent travels through a number of musical
landscapes and since her album-debut in 2002 she has released 7
albums as a leader.
Artist of the year at Swedish World Music Awards 2012
A versatile artist, colorful, headstrong, audacious and personal. A performer who twists and turns on
the familiar and who creates new perspectives for all of us.
This was the jurys statement when Miriam Ada received the price for Artist of the year at the swedish
World Music Awards in 2012.
Following the success of the swedish Grammy-nominated, Manifest-nominated and World Music
Awards-nominated albums Letras ao Brasil (2009) and Visans Vsen (2011), she now releases a new
album with her Afro Samba Orchestra.
Miriam Ada Afro Samba Orchestra s new album " de Lei!" contains intimacy, melancholy,
boiling energy, happiness, mystery and a journey deep into the heart of the afro-brazilian music.
2013 Miriam formed this orchestra with Vindla string quartet, two woodwinds, 7-string acoustic
guitar and two percussionists to play the music of brazilian legend and founder of Afro Samba, Baden
Powell (1937-2000).
Through an international collaboration with the brazilian arranger Jayme Vignoli, the arrangements
have been tailor-made for this ensemble. Jayme Vignoli is one of the most sought-after arrangers in his
native Rio De Janeiro and he contributes with his masterful writing which are complex,
multi-dimensional, colorful and expressive.
February 2014 their album" de Lei!" was released in Scandinavia and the album received topreviews from the most important magazines and newspaper.
May 2014 the album " de Lei!" is released in Japan.
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