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Célia Vaz
12+ albums
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As an arranger, Célia Vaz worked for Joyce, Billy Eckstine, Rio Jazz Orchestra, Martinho da Vila, Leci Brandão, Quarteto em Cy, and others. As a teacher, she had artists like Antônio Adolfo, Mauro Senise, Elba Ramalho, and Zélia Duncan as students. By participation in several albums of other artists, she has been developing an international solo career since the '90s. She began to study music in the '60s at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music. She also took guitar classes with Sidney Miller and Jards Macalé. She dedicated herself to music after the recording of her "Lembrança" by singer Dóris Monteiro, after its presentation by Monteiro in the Festival Universitário de Música Popular do Rio de Janeiro. In 1972, she won a scholarship for the Arranging and Composition course of Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA, U.S.), graduating in 1976. Among the several concerts and recordings in that phase, drummer Dom Um Romão's participation as arranger on LP Hotmosphere, which also had her "Cisco Two" composition, deserves mention. Returning to Brazil in 1976, she continued her harmony studies with conductor/composer Guerra Peixe and made arrangements for singers. Her first solo album came in 1980, Mutação (Polygram), with guest artist Pat Metheny, among others. In the '80s, she organized and conducted the Orquestra Célia Vaz, which worked with Rosinha de Valença and other artists. In 1987, she became musical director, arranger, and guitarist of the vocal group Quarteto em Cy, recordi
