Céu ~ Vagarosa (2009)

Céu (Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças)

http://www.ceumusic.com/

Céu (estilizado como CéU) (nome artístico de Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, São Paulo, 17 de abril de 1980) é uma cantora e compositora brasileira de música popular brasileira.

Iniciou sua carreira artística em 2002. Seu trabalho traz influências tanto de música originalmente brasileira (particularmente o samba), como de hip hop, afrobeat, jazz, R&B etc. Já afirmou em entrevista que não rejeita o rótulo de MPB, mas considera que ele já ficou limitado:

"O rótulo da MPB ficou limitado. Ele é bem abrangente, afinal é música popular brasileira. E me considero isso. Quando vou fazer um som, me alimento do que gosto e, como muitos outros da minha geração, me alimento não só de coisas específicas. Gostamos de ouvir música da Jamaica, agora estou escutando música etíope. Não penso que [tipo de] música estou fazendo. Simplesmente faço um som."

No dia 7 de Julho de 2009, Céu, lançou seu segundo álbum "Vagarosa", que recebeu grande aclamação da crítica internacional. No mesmo ano, foi considerada pela revista Época um dos 100 brasileiros mais influentes de 2009, vendendo mais de 25 mil cópias na Europa e, 100 mil nos Estados Unidos.

Céu, whose full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label in April 2007. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil on April 17, 1980, into a musical family, her father being a composer, arranger and musicologist. It was from her father that she learned to appreciate Brazil's classical music composers, particularly Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazaré and Orlando Silva.

By age fifteen she had decided to become a musician and by her late teens she had studied music theory, as well as the violão (nylon-stringed Brazilian guitar). Her songs reveal her many influences, which include samba, valsa, choro, soul, rhythm and blues, hip hop, afrobeat and electrojazz music.

As Céu herself explained, "I have a passion for Black culture, from Jazz divas to Afro beat. Everything comes from Africa. With Samba, I have a very strong connection to the old school that we call 'Samba de raiz' (Root Samba). I am a vinyl listener, so I tried to bring some of that to the CD, mixing it with modern things like rap or even 'Brega', which is the newest thing in Brazil."

In particular, she cites as influences the music of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lauryn Hill, and Erykah Badu, as well as the Brazilian Jorge Ben.

Céu was performing onstage with major artists and exploring the repertoire of the marchinhas (turn-of-the-century carnival music) by her late teens. Soon after that she relocated temporarily to New York City, where she had a chance meeting with fellow Brazilian musician Antonio Pinto, who became her flat mate while he was going through some financial difficulties. She later learned that he was actually a distant cousin, and their relationship was renewed when he teamed up with lead producer Beto Villares, composer of the musical score for the movie O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2007) to help her record her album. Pinto, who produced Céu's song "Ave Cruz" is the composer of the musical score for two Oscar Nominated films, Central Station (film) (1999) and City of God (2002).

Originally issued in 2005 on the São Paulo-based Urban Jungle, Céu was picked up by Six Degrees/Starbucks/Hear Music in the US and UK, JVC in Japan and Harmonia Mundi in France and in the Netherlands. Céu received a Latin Grammy nomination for “best new artist” of 2006 and a Grammy nomination for "Best Contemporary World Music Album." of 2007. She is also riding high on a wave of international success in France, where the influential Les Inrockuptibles recognized her as one of the top 5 musical revelations of 2005, Holland, and Italy, as well as in Canada, where she was recently the fourth highest-selling artist for the Archambault chain of music shops while simultaneously holding the number 32 slot on the pop charts. Debut album in the U.S. with Six Degrees Records as the first international artist on Starbucks' Hear Music Debut Series. Her album was received with critical praise from NPR's Morning Edition, The Associated Press, Reuters, and many more, hailing her as "…a fresh new face in the Brazilian music scene." Her album has sound scanned over 110,000 copies to date, making her the biggest selling Brazilian artist of 2007. Céu reached unprecedented chart numbers for a Brazilian female artist—1 on Billboard's Heatseekers (New Artist) Chart, 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 1 on Billboard's World Music charts. In 2008, Céu received a Grammy nomination for “Best Contemporary World Music Album” of 2007 for her debut album Céu. In 2009, her critically acclaimed second album Vagarosa reached #2 on the US Billboard's World Music charts. The album has since been nominated for a 2010 Latin Grammy for Best Contemporary Brazilian Pop Record.

In 2010, Céu was invited by Herbie Hancock to record a version of "Tempo de Amor" for The Imagine Project album.

In 2011, she contributed a version of the track "It's a Long Way" in collaboration with Apollo Nove and N.A.S.A. for the Red Hot Organization's most recent charitable album "Red Hot+Rio 2." The album is a follow-up to the 1996 "Red Hot+Rio." Proceeds from the sales will be donated to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV and related health and social issues.

Céu ~ Vagarosa (2009)

Vagarosa é um álbum da cantora brasileira Céu, mesclando influências de world music, música brasileira, reggae e dub.

Lançado em 2009, cinco anos após sua estreia, o álbum tem 12 composições próprias e uma releitura psicodélica de "Rosa Menina Rosa", do Jorge Ben. Destaque também para "Sonâmbulo", um "reggae estilo Manu Chao (para quem conhece)", "Sobre o amor e seu trabalho silencioso", primeira faixa do CD, "Cangote", "Bubuia" e "Grains de Beauté". A revista Rolling Stone Brasil o elegeu como melhor disco de 2009 e as canções "Cangote" e "Bubuia" foram eleitas a segunda e décima quinta, respectivamente, como as melhores músicas de 2009.

Vagarosa is the second album of Brazilian singer/songwriter Céu. It was produced by Urban Jungle in 2009. Released by Six Degrees Records in the USA/UK/Germany and by Universal Music in Brazil.

Vagarosa

Álbum de estúdio por CéU

Lançamento: 7 de Julho de 2009

Formato: CD, Álbum e Download digital

Catalog number: 11602

ASIN: B002BVUBR8

Studio/Live: Studio

Idioma: Português

Gênero: MPB e Pop, Brazilian, Jazz, Bossa Nova, Soul, Rhythm and Blues

Label: Universal Music Brasil

Producer: Beto Vilares, Gustavo Lenza Gui Amabis

© Universal Music Brasil

Vagarosa

Studio album by Céu

Released: 2009

Genre: Brazilian

Label: Urban Jungle|Six Degrees

Producer: Beto Vilares, Gustavo Lenza Gui Amabis

© Six Degrees Records

© Urban Jungle Records

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Faixas:

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 1. Sobre o Amor e Seu Trabalho Silencioso  |0:56

 Compositor: Céu

 2. Cangote  |4:02

 Compositor: Céu

 3. Comadi  |3:30

 Compositores: Céu e Beto Villares

 4. Bubuia (com Anelis Assumpção e Thalma de Freitas)  |3:16

 Compositores: Anelis Assumpção, Céu e Thalma de Freitas

 5. Nascente  |3:21

 Compositores: Céu e Siba

 6. Grains de Beauté  |3:36

 Compositores: Céu e Beto Villares

 7. Vira Lata (com Luiz Melodia)  |3:37

 Compositor: Céu

 8. Papa  |1:21

 Compositor: Céu

 9. Ponteiro  |3:38

 Compositor: Céu

 10. Cordão da Insônia  |2:43

 Compositores: Céu e Beto Villares

 11. Rosa Menina Rosa (com Los Sebozos Postizos)  |4:43

 Compositor: Jorge Ben Jor

 12. Sonâmbulo  |3:51

 Compositores: Bruno Buarque, Céu, DJ Marco, Serginho Machado, Lucas Martins e Guilherme Ribeiro

 13. Espaçonave (com Fernando Catatau)  |3:35

 Compositores: Fernando Catatau e Céu

Duração total: 41:54

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| DDD | Audio CD | CBR 320 Kbps/48.1 kHz/Stereo |

| File Size: 157 mb. | Pass: céubeleza |

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Cangote

Comadi (Live at Jazz Open 2010 Stuttgart)

Bubuia (live TV 2009)

Nascente

Nascente (São Paulo, 3 de outubro de 2009)

Nascente (Festival Gran Momentos 2011)

Grains de Beauté

Vira Lata (com Diogo Poças)

Papa/Cordão da Insônia

Ponteiro
(Dakota Jazz Club- Minneapolis, April 10th, 2010)

Cordão da Insônia (Jazz Baltica 2010)

Rosa Menina Rosa
(com Fernando Catatau e Pupillo)
(São Paulo, 3 de outubro de 2009)

Sonâmbulo (TV Cultura, 22/09/2007)

Espaçonave (Circo Voador, 16/01/2010)

Céu ~ Live in Paris (march 2012)

Céu ~ Club Soda (2012-06-30)

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