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Her stage name says it all: The singer Nice Brazil stands for the enchanting sides of Brazilian music. From the rhythms that makes the legs move, to melodies that touch you, to lyrics that sometimes take you on a melancholy walk, sometimes on a full ride of joie de vivre. Her new album "Minhas Raizes" ("My Roots") consistently continues what she recently pre-explored on "Pra Voce" ("For You"): she pours all the riches of Brazilian music, from traditional choro or baião to Samba and Bossa-Nova, the different styles, sounds and colors of big cities like Sao Paulo, Rio or Belo-Horizonte in jazzy arrangements. For the first time mainly with own compositions and in her own words. "Minhas Raizes" is an expression of acquired inner strength, musically the connection of Brazilian music with jazz, thematically no less than the reflection on our time, about life and death. All of this is already gathered in "Pra Lá e Pra Cá" ("Scattered"), the title track "Minhas Raízes" is a tribute to her ancestors, in "Quando Te Vi" ("When I saw you") she beats down profoundly the phenomenon of the first great love, in "Te Amei" ("I love you") she says a last farewell to her deceased father. Her expressive voice dances between the extremes: sometimes full of spirits, sometimes very quiet, almost meditative, on the border to the breathy, yet present in every note - she intones the soul of Brazilian music. Intimate moments, but at the same time a moment of thanks to the universe, which she shares with the listener. Nice Brazil grew up in São Paulo in the 1970s and 1980s. In the heyday of Música Popular Brasileira, which is ubiquitous on the radio, on the streets and at festivals, and is supported by its greatest performers such as Chico Buarque, Geraldo Vandré, João Bosco, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfá, Gilberto Gil or Caetano Veloso.

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