| Andrea Marquee first started her artistic career as an actress in 1992, when she was 18 years old.
Despite the fact she was a starter, many of the musical works produced that year could help to project her talent even more.
Some of those works were: "Mayã", "Nocturnal", "Chronicles of Passions" and "Laughers", by Brazilian director Oswaldo Montenegro, and "From Kitsch to Sublime", "Hair" and "In the Bounds of Madness", by also Brazilian director Jorge Fernando.
In 1993, bit by the bug of music, she began a four year long work with the Heartbreakers, a band formed by top tier musicians. With the band's eclectic repertoire, ranging from MPB (Brazilian Popular Music), salsa and jazz (and the fusion between them), she got the chance to share the stage with even bigger stars such as Wynton Marsalis, Chucho Valdez and his Irakere and Zizi Possi.
The band also went on tour throughout Brazil and some countries of Europe, showing its very diverse and unique repertoire.
Back to the theater, in 1997 Andrea acted in another musical, entitled "Cabaret Brazil" and directed by Wolf Maia, which was shown to several Brazilian cities for almost two years. However, the busy schedule wasn't enough to intimidate her vitality and she also played a role in the shooting of "Orfeu de Conceição" a film by Cacá Diegues.
Only a few months ago she joined the New Song Project, which put both revelations and some of MPB's icons side by side. Andrea could not only learn from some of her masters, but also establish herself as one of the very promising new talents in the Brazilian scene.
Now her next venture is a solo album, produced by Mauricio Tagliari, Luca Raele (guitarist and clarinetist for the former band Nouvelle Cuisine) and Apollo 9. On this album, a mix of MPB and some of the most innovative in modern music is being put in a very flavoring way.
New readings of Caetano, Gilberto Gil and Jorge Benjor along with composers still unknown by the big public take part of this soon to be released album.
It is a work where she stands firmly on national roots, but with her eyes turned upon the new sonorities that spring up all over the world. |
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