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Artist
Dani Gurgel
12+ albums
jazzbrasilmpbpianobrazilian
about
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1985, Dani Gurgel has been professionally working on music and photography since her early teens. She was born in a musical family, with a saxofonist father and a pianist mother. Dani had lived most of her life on instrumental music, until her debut as a singer and composer. She was a saxophone player at Tom Jobim University's big band, conducted by Roberto Sion, and at Zimbo Trio's support bigband, even a bass player at Quincas, a composers' group with Tó Brandileone and Vinicius Calderoni. That's when she started composing her own music, during college. Even though she started to sing later, listening to Flora Purim and Chick Corea on ‘Return to Forever’, she has Elis Regina's strenght and Luciana Souza's instrumental voice as standards. Since the beginning of her musical career, Dani Gurgel has been developing her compositional work and aggregating her generation. During two concert seasons in São Paulo, in 2007, the series ‘Dani Gurgel e Novos Compositores’ (Dani Gurgel and New Composers) not only introduced Dani Gurgel as a singer and composer, but made place for the union of young musicians with a common objective. During the series, Dani recorded an e.p. with four songs: one of her own, and three that were in the series. The album, known as the ‘compact’, wasn't just a rehearsal for the production of a future ‘long-play’, but a solid work, in times of digital distribution, that opened many doors. It is available for digital sales by Trato
