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"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 Anastácia Azevedo
was born and raised in Ceará in northeast Brazil. In 1990, after
finishing her music studies at the Universidade do Ceará in
Fortaleza, she and her partner, guitarist and songwriter Zé Eugênio,
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.

While
their music program was first characterised by standards of the
Música Popular Brasileira they started in 1992, caused by a private
misfortune, to write and play also songs by themselves, in which they
combined rhythms of their home with new influences from jazz and
funk. "The audiences reaction was great", remembers
Anastácia then motivated to follow her own way of making music.
Anastácia's talent lies in the character of her voice, which is able
to combine lyrical softness with rhythmical energy.

Besides
playing with Zé Eugênio as a duo she is also working with bigger
casts and is experimenting with different music styles. But she
particularly likes to discover the rhythms of the northeastern part
of her home, for example Baiao, Maracutu, Xote and Samba, which can
also be found on her Debut album "Lumerê Lumerá". 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.

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