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CéU at SFJAZZ Spring Festival at Herbst Theater

Where

Herbst Theater
SFJAZZ Spring Festival

401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA
Map
415.621.6600

When

Fri, June 22, 2012
8:00pm

Musicians

CeU
vocals

About

As a restless teenager growing up in Sao Paulo, Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças desperately wanted to step outside Brazilian culture to experience American music firsthand. At 18, she moved to New York City, immersing herself in jazz, blues and R&B. By the time she returned to São Paulo a year later, where she eventually emerged as the single-name sensation Céu, she had forged deep creative ties with a coterie of fellow Brazilian musicians working in the Big Apple. It took leaving home for her to find her voice as a Brazilian artist. Now the most visible young Brazilian singer on a scene teeming with alluring vocalists, Céu has released a string of Grammy-nominated albums on San Francisco-based Six Degrees Records...

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