Vanessa Falabella....

"The Brazilian-born Vanessa Falabella spent great part os the 90’s singing in New York clubs, strugling with Bebel Gilberto and the guitar player Pedro Baby in the alternative circuit, learning in a tough way, in the World city of music. Now she is launching her first CD in Brazil. It’s called “Vibe” and it gets together some pop rock classics from the 70’s and 80’s in a cool environment with a soft Brazilian spice, in a refined production and excellent repertoire. Safe interpretations in a perfect English.“
Nelson Motta – (renowned brazilian journalist, composer, writer and music producer)

Born into a family of actors, writers and painters, the Brazilian native started as a child, doing commercials, voice overs and jingles for Radio and TV, while listening to 'mpb', bossa nova, samba, jazz, funk and soul. "There were so many influences and music around me and I wanted to learn everyone's sound." After high school, Falabella decided to take voice and english lessons in New York. After a short while she started to do studio and club work. That experience lead her to a great number of recordings with artists such as Gato Barbieri, Philippe Saisse, Sadao Watanabe, Cyro Baptista, Jason Miles, Will Lee, Eumir Deodato, Rick Braun as well as an EMI group project called Criara, with great filmscore producers Frank Ferrucci and Scott Lehrer. Vanessa Falabella' 1995 debut with Rain Forest Band, brought to life the opportunity of writing a joint work, with two great Brazilian musicians Magrus and Claudio Spiewak in Miami. That was registered in one CD, released independentely. She also wrote tunes with Rob Bargad, Ragh, Luca Mundaca, Zooga Mallaga, Tony Cedras, Frank Ferrucci and other fine songwriters.

Back to New York in 1997, she started blending all her musical influences of Brazilian and American grooves, singing in Portuguese and English.
While in New York, Vanessa developed both a Brazilian-Latin and American following. Her Brazil Nights at Cafe Wha shows attracted a large audience, playing to packed house every Monday night in Greenwich Village for nearly 3 years.
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