To celebrate the 40th anniversary of her career, Maria João has just released Abundância, an album in which she returns to her roots. Recorded between Mozambique and Lisbon, the album has musical bridges between the past and the future, jazz and world music, rhythm and melody. Produced by electronic master Luís Fernandes, it features musicians from Mozambique, as well as a wonderful choir.
Accompanied by João Farinha (keyboards), Texito Langa (percussion) and a choir, Maria João will once again showcase her unmistakable voice, with its unique sensitivity, in Abundância live. This is the perfect setting for a passionate performance of unparalleled expressive force, capable of the deepest emotions.
About Maria João
Maria João’s name is indelibly linked to the history of national jazz. In 1983, her debut on Orfeu, with the eponymous recording by the Maria João Quintet, marked the beginning of a unique path that established her as one of the leading figures on the national music scene, a status she still maintains today thanks to a permanent capacity for reinvention and an incessant search for new and stimulating artistic paths. It could even be said that the work of Maria João, a total artist, is the result of a state of permanent revolution, a manifestation of freedom that has taken her from the deepest acoustic traditions to the electronic present and future with the same ease.
In these intense four decades, Maria João has never rested and has constantly challenged herself: she has led her own quintet, been a member of the Ogre collective, established long partnerships with musicians such as pianist Mário Laginha or bassist Carlos Bica, André Mehmari, and has also recorded extensively with international artists such as Japanese pianist Aki Takase, Joe Zawinul and Trilok Gurtu and national ones such as the aforementioned Carlos Bica and Mário Laginha, or Laurent Filipe, António Pinho Vargas, Jorge Palma, José Peixoto, Júlio Pereira and many others.
With a long history of performing on prestigious stages on five continents and receiving multiple distinctions from the international press and industry for her versatility, originality and musical inventiveness, values that she carries with her into each new chapter of her career, Maria João continues to look forward. And four decades after she began documenting her unbridled passion for music on record, Maria João is still looking for new challenges that will allow her to continue giving full voice to her imagination. An absolutely unique case.
Tour Details
Line up
Maria João – Vocals
João farinha – Keyboards
Texigo Langa – percussion
3 element choir