Azevedo

"I recently suffered a crisis realising that I was losing some of my Brazilian roots here in Berlin. But then I found that rather than loosing I was even winning something new in this town..."
Anastácia Azevedo

You can take a person out of their homeland but you can never take their homeland out of a person.
Singer and songwriter Anastacia Azevedo was born and raised in Ceara in northeast Brazil. In 1990, after finishing her music studies at the Universidade do Caera in Fortaleza, she and her partner, guitarist and songwriter Ze Eugenio, answered the call to see what life could be like the other side of the ocean and moved to Berlin, Germany. There she studied singing at the "Hanns Eisler High School for Music and co-founded the Brazilian cultural centre "Quilombo", and began to perform there and at other venues in the city. Her songwriting developed apace, influenced by the new jazz and funk sounds of the city but always beating with the heart of the rhythms of her homeland: Baião, Maracutu, Xote, Samba and Bossa-Nova. Today, as evidenced by her PIRANHAalbums, she has created her own style, infused with the intangible quality of longing the Brazilians call Saudade. Home is where the heart is.
Between 2001 and 2004 she began to tour more and more intense in Europe starting to become a main act on medium size festivals like "Micro!Festival" (2003) were roughly 2000 people celebrated her music with great enthusiasm. 2005 she released her second album "Amanaira" and toured mainly in Germany, while Anastácia began to spent more time in Brazil and worked on various musical projects with Zé Eugênio. Both of them are very succesful not only with the band, but performing as a duo.