Lilian Vieira’s Samba Soul tour in the Netherlands

Lilian Vieira’s Samba Soul tour in the Netherlands

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Brazilian-Dutch singer Lilian Vieira will present her first solo album on 18 January 2014 in RASA, Utrecht. In the next months she will tour the Netherlands.

Almost 25 years ago the Brazilian singer Lilian Vieira set foot in the Netherlands. She is best known as co-founder and front woman of the brazilectro formation Zuco103. Since their musical break she is a sought after guest soloist for diverse projects of the Metropole Orchestra, Dutch acts like Drive Like Maria, pianist Gideon van Gelder to youth theatre.

“In the pause following the international tours with Zuco103 I was surprised in my dreams by lyrics and melodies. I could not help but record them.”

These dreams, combined with the inspiring Samba Soul theatre tour in 2008, drove her to create this debut album. The album leads us to her childhood, the seventies, her native soil and her parents who let the love for music run through her veins. “ I came home in the making of this album, the circle is complete. This CD is the musical document of my life there and here and then and now.”

The music and lyrics are hers. With a sound bite of her mother Lilian Vieira opens her eponymous solo album whose melodies effortlessly wrap around you like a Brazilian canga. The mix of cavaquinho, Hammond organ, acoustic guitar and musical saw is unusual for Brazilians. In combination with the sound bites of both her mother and father, it brings us HER Samba Soul; a rhythmic interplay of soulful and groovy fragments, inspired by her heroes like Jorge Ben, Trio Mocotó and Tim Maia.

The album Lilian Vieira is produced by Wiboud Burkens, amongst others known as producer of Jungle by Night. “I’ve plucked up courage and just asked him, with trembling knees though. He didn’t only say yes, but he embraced the project with open arms. Burkens has completed my songs.”

Lilian Vieira brings her Samba Soul live and tours the Netherlands with a programme where she effortlessly combines her own compositions with highlights from the Samba Soul.

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On 22 May Lilian Vieira will perform in Fernando Lameirinhas' show at De Kleine Komedie, Amsterdam.

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