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“I think you have a special voice and great musicality…Vraiment magnifique!” 
-- Jacques SCHWARZ-BART

Lîa is a French Brazilian jazz musician, vocalist and songwriter from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A singer with an unique timbre and attack who incorporates folk and pop music into her work. She sings in Portuguese , English and French.
She began playing piano by the age of fourteen, and was working as a vocalist by the mid 80’s on Rio scene, singing vocals to brazilian reggae bands.
In 1992 she met and married trombonist Raul de Souza, with whom she lived for six years, meeting all brazilian music stars, from Jobim and Joao Donato to Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethania.
After moving to Paris in the late 90’s she worked on bossa tunes adapting them in a contemporary way. She is releasing her first album, «  Bonita ».

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