The Portuguese voice that New Iorque discovered

LEONOR FIGUEIREDO

Music. Launched album sixth and Saturday in the Hot Club
Sara Serpa presents “Beach”, that it has Greg Osby as invited musician

Although music always to have folloied - it starts to touch piano to the seven years and enters to the 11 for the School of Music of the Conservatory of Lisbon to study Piano and I sing -, when the height arrives to opt, Sara Serpa it prefers to play in the insurance and it takes leave in Whitewashing and Social Insertion in the Superior Institute of Applied Psychology.

But its passion I sing for it and for the composition it comes to say high more, since it never left it while it deepened the knowledge of the mind human being. Of the o step in front of deciding to start to frequentar the School of Jazz of the Hot Club of Portugal.

The remaining portion came for itself. Who wants, obtains. Boston was the stage that if followed, with stock markets gotten in two detached North American schools: the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, having in this last one completed mestrado in Jazz the Performance.

After these years of trainings in the development of the voice as composer and improvisadora, Sara Serpa becomes to notice for the form as it sings without letter, of creative form.

It was with it that the first Portuguese presence of always entered in palco of the Village Vanguard, in New Iorque, with the group of the saxofonista Greg Osby. Actuou later in the Standard Jazz, the Cornelia St. Coffee in New Iorque, Panama Festival Jazz, Berklee Performance Center and Jordam Hallem in Boston, Kennedy Center in Washington. How much the discográficas participation, passes for the most recent 9 Levels, of Greg Osby (in the Inner Circle Music).

Described recently as “one of the voices most innovative of the New York current scene”, the young vocalista and composer, today resident in New Iorque, present in days 2 and 3 of January, in the Hot Club in Lisbon, the album Beach, that, says Sara Serpa, “is a picture of mine three years in Boston”. Special guest: Greg Osby. “To have to touch it it is as the cherry in the top of the cake. It discovered me in the Myspace and since then my life moved.”
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