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Trip Hop Samba
Céu
| Brazil
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Ever since Brazilian phenomenon Céu captivated the world with her self-titled debut album since 2005, her follow up release has been widely antici-pated. After being chosen in the USA as the first international artist featured in Starbucks’ Hear Music™ Debut series, Céu earned both Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations, countless press accolades, and chart topping numbers.
In July 2005 the CD “CéU” was released in France, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg on Urban Jun-gle Records, in partnership with the French label O+ Music, reaching rapidly the top of sales position in “World Music” by selling 20.000 copies in only a few months. The specialized European press has elected Céu the “Ambassadress of the New Brazil-ian Music”. The release of the album was followed by three European Tours, in August 2005, in Octo-ber 2005 and in March 2006, all of them cheered by critic and public. The French magazine “Les Inrockuptibles”, major cultural reference in France, elected Céu as one of the top five revelation of “World Music” in 2005. The same year, Céu’s album was released in Bra-zil in partnership with Warner Music being consid-ered the most important newcomer in the Brazilian music scene as well as the best album of the year by publications like “Folha de São Paulo”, “O Estado de São Paulo”, “Correio da Bahia”, “Jornal do Brasil” and “Revista Bizz”. Still in 2005, Céu recorded vocals on a theme composed by Antonio Pinto for the soundtrack of the movie “Lord of War” starring Nicolas Cage.
Céu returns to Europe for a 12 dates Tour, includ-ing shows in prestigious Festivals such as the JVC Jazz Festival in Paris and the North Sea Jazz Fes-tival in Rotterdam, besides appearances in TV and Radio shows. At the same time, the CD “CéU” was released in Canada on Urban Jungle Records with Canadian label LCL / Fusion III label, reaching the Top Five “World Music” chart by selling 10.000 copies in six months. A Canadian Tour that in-cluded the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Festival d’été de Québec followed this release.
In Brazil, Céu performed in a series of shows around the country, whether performing with her own band, or doing special appearances in shows of renowned Brazilian artists like João Bosco, Mar-cos Valle and Nação Zumbi.
In 2006, CéU receives a Latin Grammy nomination for “Best New Artist”,
In 2007, The CD “CéU” debuts in the United States on Urban Jungle Records and Six Degrees Re-cords, in partnership with the coffee shop chain Starbucks. The CD was selected to be the fourth release of the pioneer project Starbucks Hear Mu-sic, and the first of a foreign language artist. This release was followed by three very successful American Tours.
Céu has reached impressive marks that year:
- Over 200.000 copies sold world-wide, 100.000 in the United States only; 50.000 copies in Europe, 5000 in Japan and 40.000 in Brazil;
- Over 50 shows around the World, attended by over 60.000 fans;
- The first spot on the “World Music “ and “Inde-pendent Music” Billboard charts;
- The 57th spot on the Top 200 Billboard chart, highest position reached by a Brazilian artist since Astrud Gilberto with “Girl from Ipanema”
In May, the CD “CéU” was released in Japan on Urban Jungle Records in partnership with Japa-nese label JVC/Victor Entertainment and sold 5.000 copies. In July, Céu performed the Tom Jobim’s classic song “Wave” in the opening cere-mony of the Pan-American Games – Rio 2007 – in the Maracanã Stadium watched by more than 1 billion viewers around the world.
The same year, the CD “CéU” has reached new territories, such as the United Kingdom. Released in May in Germany on Urban Jungle Records and Six Degrees Records, the album has received a warm welcome from the l
The CD “CéU” was nominated for a Grammy Award as “Best Contemporary World Album” in 2008. Then, Céu continued to perform concerts throughout the country at the same time that she teamed up again with producer Beto Villares for the production of her second album. In the process, they also involved producer and engineer Gustavo Lenza (Céu’s touring engineer for the past 4 years, who recently produced Curumin’s last two records) and soundtrack producer Gui Amabis, who has collaborated with Céu on the Sonantes project. Throughout the album Céu enjoyed the assistance of many top-notch musician friends: members of Los Sebozos Postizos make an appearance on “Rosa Menina Rosa”; Curumin plays drums on “Cordão da Insônia”; Luiz Melodia provides exqui-site guest vocals on “Vira Lata.” Pupillo and Den-gue from Nação Zumbi contribute drums and bass on “Ponteiro,” and Siba (a founder of the regionally famous Pernambucan band Mestre Ambrósio) co-wrote “Nascente” with her.
The ever-proliferating crowd of Brazilian musicians lining up to record with Céu, combined with her deepening penetration of the world’s music mar-kets, is more than enough to bear out the optimistic predictions of the music media. But really, all the proof of her unique talent is right here: in the beau-tifully simple melodies, the sophisticated complex-ity of the arrangements, the wide-ranging musical references, and the general warmth and attractive-ness of her songwriting.
Céu's second album "Vagarosa", released in 2009 finally met all the expectations from fans and press. It’s a delicious soundtrack that combines 60’s Sci-Fi and jungle vibes, dub, surf rock, samba and chanson feelings. “Vagarosa” got rave reviews in magazines and newspapers around the world, including The Guardian, New York Times, The Sunday Times, Liberation, Die Zeit. It was at num-ber one of the World Music Charts Europe in De-cember 2009, January and February 2010.
Céu toured through the US and Europe in 2009 to present her new album, and it was a huge success. In April 2010 she toured again the US with remark-able festivals such as Coachella, and she plays various festivals this summer in Europe. Another club-tour will follow in the autumn and in May/July 2011.
