Tulipa Ruiz
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Tulipa Ruiz

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | Established. Jan 01, 2010 | INDIE

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | INDIE
Established on Jan, 2010
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"The Best of 2011"

Global pop

Howard Male

As it's been such a fruitful year for female artists (and I'm not talking Gaga or even Kate Bush), I'm sticking to the fairer and more idiosyncratic sex with all my choices.

Tulipa's Efemera was delicate quirky Brazilian indie-pop which managed to be simultaneously sophisticated and naive. While at the opposite end of the spectrum, Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards separated the men from the boys with a corrosive mix of world rhythms, Broadway-style melodies and spoilt-brat dissonance with WhoKill.

For once the most-promoted world-music album of the year lived up to the hype, transcending its coffee-table credentials. Fatou by Malian singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara had uncompromising lyrics playing off against a subtle interplay of congas, calabash, ngoni and guitar.

After more than a decade, Susheela Raman finally made the album she was born to make, in that Vel incorporated both her Indian/Tamil heritage and a life spent under the sway of Western rock in the style of Siouxsie Sioux and Nick Cave.

Finally – so close to home it only qualifies as "world music" in the most literal sense – Shropshire's Mara Carlyle produced a jewel of an album with Floreat. It earns its place among all the ostensibly more exotic fare mentioned above, simply because I couldn't bear not to mention it. - The Independent


"Tulipa Ruiz"

Tulipa is a young singer-songwriter from São Paulo who has all the makings of the next major Brazilian celebrity, thanks to her songs and her powerful stage presence. The MPB (Popular Brazilian Music) scene has produced a series of highly successful female artists, from the pleasant Maria Rita through to the more interesting and experimental Céu.

Tulipa (and that really does mean tulip in Portuguese) has the potential to outclass them both. She has just released a breezy, quirky and tuneful debut album Efêmera, on which she is joined by an impressive cast that includes Céu and members of Orquestra Imperial. It's an enjoyable affair that has won rave reviews in Brazil, but it fails to do justice to her live performance. The Momo bar, off London's Regent Street, is a favourite showcase for world-music artists, but it's not an easy venue: performers have to compete with the chatter and clink of glasses.

Tulipa hadn't made life easy for herself – this, her UK debut, was without her full band, backing was provided only by the acoustic guitar of her brother Gustavo Ruiz. But she dominated the room from the start, showing a vocal power that is never evident from the album, and an easy, charming stagecraft. Her style was in turn slinky, sassy, playful and theatrical, and her songs ranged from easygoing ballads that showed off her effortless falsetto through to the tuneful, gently dramatic Pedrinho, or a swinging, boisterous treatment of a Caetano Veloso song, Da Maior Importância.

She has a great voice, but also a sense of humour. Her one stage prop was a plastic tulip, and she ended with her one English-language song of the night, a full-tilt, almost operatic treatment of Tiptoe Through the Tulips. - The GUardian


"Tulipa Ruiz"

Tulipa is a young singer-songwriter from São Paulo who has all the makings of the next major Brazilian celebrity, thanks to her songs and her powerful stage presence. The MPB (Popular Brazilian Music) scene has produced a series of highly successful female artists, from the pleasant Maria Rita through to the more interesting and experimental Céu.

Tulipa (and that really does mean tulip in Portuguese) has the potential to outclass them both. She has just released a breezy, quirky and tuneful debut album Efêmera, on which she is joined by an impressive cast that includes Céu and members of Orquestra Imperial. It's an enjoyable affair that has won rave reviews in Brazil, but it fails to do justice to her live performance. The Momo bar, off London's Regent Street, is a favourite showcase for world-music artists, but it's not an easy venue: performers have to compete with the chatter and clink of glasses.

Tulipa hadn't made life easy for herself – this, her UK debut, was without her full band, backing was provided only by the acoustic guitar of her brother Gustavo Ruiz. But she dominated the room from the start, showing a vocal power that is never evident from the album, and an easy, charming stagecraft. Her style was in turn slinky, sassy, playful and theatrical, and her songs ranged from easygoing ballads that showed off her effortless falsetto through to the tuneful, gently dramatic Pedrinho, or a swinging, boisterous treatment of a Caetano Veloso song, Da Maior Importância.

She has a great voice, but also a sense of humour. Her one stage prop was a plastic tulip, and she ended with her one English-language song of the night, a full-tilt, almost operatic treatment of Tiptoe Through the Tulips. - The GUardian


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Born in Santos, raised in So Loureno in the state of Minas Gerais, and graduated from Multimedias from PUC  university in So Paulo, Tulipa Ruiz and her brother, Gustavo  have a strong musical background: their father, Luiz Chagas is a guitarist in the avant- garde Isca de Polcia, a band which accompanied Itamar Assumpo. Nevertheless her references come from the likes of Gal Costa (who recently complimented her), Zez Motta, the group Rumo and international and multimedia artists Meredith Monk and Yoko Ono.Still a young woman and already in university, Tulipa had a few musical experiences as a hobby. The real deal only happened in 2009 when the at the time editor and illustrator, decided to declare herself a singer and composer without ever leaving behind the drawings which graphically translate her in shows and in the album covers. Her father and brother are a part of this story and integrate the band, together with Caio Lopes on the drums and Marcio Arantes on bass guitar.

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