JULIANA AMARAL is a 36 years old brazilian composer, singer and actress. Her first album “Águas Daqui” was released in 2002 with musical direction and production by the pianist Luis Felipe Gama and the co-production by Robertinho Silva, a reputated brazilian drummer and percussionist. “Juliana Samba”, her album released in 2007, whose repertoire brings together a number of different generation of samba composers, was produced by Moacyr Luz, with arrangements from Paulão Sete Cordas. The Juliana’s Amaral concern considered the samba as a set of musical and literary contents which allows the rephrasing of some wide and wise questions related to esthetic and artistic tensions, in order to structure each show as a poetic unit, which integrates music, word and gesture.