Célia Mara

• function: artist
• company: globalista : no border media

visited Events

• WOMEX 2003
• WOMEX 2004
• WOMEX 2005
• WOMEX 2006

brazilian bastard sound made in Vienna

Wild flowers versus plastic-culture, irreverent diversity in total harmony, music without borders, the global south goes north…

"The dark and rather unique voice of Celia Mara…" already conquered the world music charts
Europe in august 2008! Brand-new album Santa Rebeldia prickles… appears first in Austria and Germany, going Greece, France, Sweden, UK, USA…
"Suddenly, "Bastard sound is in! (now, Renzo Staub) "Borders in music & politics are long-overtaken!" says Klaus Totzler in the Austrian National News, Albert Reguant presents Santa Rebeldia in Catalunya Ràdio as "… an album full of "rebellion", a shout against intolerance and for the conscientisation of arguments that concern all of us: ecology, emigration, society, violence, friendship and love. Songs full of irony and good rhythm." WDR journalist Luigi Lauer emphasizes that "Santa Rebeldia is the continuation of bastardismo as a concept, using rebeldismo-tools!", Sebastian Fasthuber in Vienna's Falter affirms: "globalization never sounded so harmonious & sensual"…
And Werner Leiss, in the music magazine Concerto, who discovered Célia Mara already in the late 90ies means "… always unmistakably Célia Mara!"

On july 14th, Célia Mara and band presented Santa Rebeldia at Jazzfest Wien - during the last 3 years, they toured with program Bastardista throughout Europe - between underground clubs & the concert halls of the elites… spreading wild bastardsound…
Bastardista
Célia Mara's previous album was considered "one of the best new "Brazilian" records to come around 2005" (Global Rhythm USA), "a 100% legitimate hit" - 4**** reviewed in Songlines, storming the Top 10 of the European World Music Charts, top rankings in the greek & the russian charts, sensational press-reviews in various countries, awarded 2006 with "COPA DA CULTURA" by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture…