She already won us over with her sweet voice on her debut, “Descalços Sobre A Terra”. Dipping her passion for the earth into the currents of musical waters, Flávia Muniz attracts the exoticism of OS MUTANTES, the sweetness of Elis Regina, the most playful spirit of Gilberto Gil, and the melodies of Joao Gilberto. This is a hidden gem that will delight fans of popular Brazilian music. Here at Elefant Records we are celebrating the release of this new digital single, presided by “Mãe D'água”, included in her aforementioned album, and accompanied here by two previously unreleased tracks, taken from the same recording sessions.

The first is one of the best demonstrations of what this young Brazilian is capable of: tropical rhythms and the fresh breeze of the most refreshing and exciting bossa, all wrapped around a hymn to life and to mother earth. “T.e.m.p.o.” accepts small forays into jazz (a style that has always sauntered alongside the Musica Popular Brasileira) to set up an exuberant development, full of flirtatious and surprising structures, to end up with the unmistakable flavor of one of the great songs from the Bahia area. “Tempo de Aurora”, the closing track of the digital single, is a delicacy that offers a lesson in roots, tropicalism, fantasy, and imagination, with that flute responding to the  voice of our beloved singer.

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Once again showing our passion for all the imaginable ways of understanding pop and also for Brazilian music, Elefant Records is releasing the debut album of one of Brazil’s most promising artists, Flávia Muniz. She is one of those characters who breathes life into everything around her; when you know about her life and you know her, it confirms the beauty that her songs transmit even more, if that’s even possible. Her first album, “Descalços Sobre A Terra”, is a marvelous and clear example of Música Popular Brasileña, rich in rhythms, harmonies, and arrangements, which pays its debt to the great classics of Rio.

Born in 1976, she got her degree in Unirio in Música Popular Brasileña, where she developed her music under teachers like Luis Otávio Braga, Roberto Gnattali, Rick Ventura, Avelino Romero, Maria Haro and Mirna Rubin. In 2007, she was in a coma from which she emerged unharmed, but which forced her to “relearn how to breathe, to speak, to walk, to eat, and to sing”, as she herself says. A nature lover and always inspired by nature, she got her strength back by writing books (“Quero ver verdejar”, “Vilarejo”, “Bárbara e a baleia”, “A história da menina que chorava letras”, “Joana e Altamira”, “Menino, grande menino” and “Verde Maduro”) which garner a c [ Read more ]