Carla Visi

At Arts Garage, SUNDAY, MAR 06 7:00PM

Carla is one of the most popular and best-selling Brazilian female singers today, identified by her powerful voice, charisma and live performances, with a combination of afrobeat and rhythmic influences. She has collaborated with renowned artists including four-time Grammy award winner, Gilberto Gil, lending her beautiful voice to their unique version of the classic track, “I Just Called To Say I Love You”. 



Music can inspire, and Carla Visi can enchant. Experience the magic when she performs at Arts Garage as part of her “Fascinating Mestizo Tour”, which depicts an intimate journey into Brazil’s music roots. Fascinating Mestizo provides an overview of the Brazilian rhythmic diversity by exploring a multitude of styles - including jazz, R&B, samba, afromusic, and reggae. This is an intimate and classy fusion of the rich mixture that embodies Brazilian Music. The tour includes musicians Rudnei Monteiro (guitar), Marcio Diniz (percussion and drums), and Zet (acoustic bass and fretless). 

With a total of seven albums under her belt (four with Cheiro de Amor, and three solo albums), Carla is well known from Portugal to Japan, with a successful career that kicked off in the 90’s when she was the lead singer for the Axe Music Band “Cheiro de Amor”, during which she recorded 18 CDs and sold millions of records worldwide. 

Through Carla Visi’s shining passion, enthusiasm and love, the Annual Brazilian Festival of Pompano Beach has broken all the attendance records for a Brazilian Festival in Florida with almost 15,000 attendees when Carla performed. She secured groundbreaking media exposure and news coverage to the City of Pompano Beach, and Broward. 

Four time Grammy-winnner Gilberto Gil gave the following testimonial while introducing Carla before she performed to a large crowd in Japan: “You will now have the distinct privilege of being exposed to Carla Visi’s musical talents. Competent. Pretty. She is always very lively, but is always grounded and professional. She is among the finest artists to emerge from Bahia in recent years, and in fact from Brazil as a whole. Her work is very interesting indeed.

Carla Visi Performing “I Just Called to Say I Love You” with Gilberto Gil