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Thank you everyone for coming to our last concert of the year – Juliana Areias – SAMBA JAZZ – Leny Andrade on Saturday 16 December 2023. It was a night full of emotions and mysteries.

We were on stage in Perth, Western Australia, the most isolated capital of the world, performing this song “O negócio é amar” (What matters is to love), composed by Carlos Lyra & Dolores Duran, as recorded by Leny Andrade, when in Brazil came the news of the death of its composer Carlinhos Lyra.

To introduce the song, I was telling to the public, its origin story, which I learned from Leny: Dolores Duran wrote the lyrics and after her death, Carlinhos Lyra, who knew it, made the song. Dolores was Leny’s true diva, as Leny is my true diva. This beautiful line of continuity happening on stage without us knowing that Lyra was in that moment joining them on the musical constellation of the sky.

Lyra was considered by Antonio Carlos Jobim, the greatest melodist of Brazil. In the beginning of December, Lyra, 90 years old, just released his latest and last album called “AFETO” (Affection) featuring a stellar lineup of artists recording his compositions: Gilberto Gil, Joyce Moreno, Ivan Lins, Edu Lobo, Wanda Sá, Fernanda Abreu, Mônica Salmaso, Lulu Santos, Marcos Valle, Paula Morelenbaum, Roberto Menescal, Caetano Veloso, Patrícia Alví, Leila Pinheiro, Mart’nália, Ney Matogrosso and Djavan. Arranged by João Donato, Marcos Valle, Gilson Peranzzetta, Antônio Adolfo, Leila Pinheiro and Jaques Morelenbaum.

Rest in peace and rest in music Lyra, Leny, Joao Donato, Doris Monteiro and Tony Bennett – all great artists who left us in 2023.

Life, death, love, music, feelings… all flowing continuously in the space, time and universe.

As the song says what matters is to love.

Live recording on Saturday 16 Dec 2023 – Juliana Areias – SAMBA JAZZ Leny Andrade at The Ellington Jazz Club – Perth, Australia.

Featuring:

Juliana Areias- voice

Paul Millard, sax/flute, transcript

Joshua de Silva – seven string guitar

Tommy Flamenco – bass

Bronton Ainsworth – drums

Rafael Medeiros de Souza – percussion

Song: “O negócio é amar” (What matters is to love), by Carlos Lyra & Dolores Duran, as recorded by Leny Andrade in 1984.

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AUG / SEP 2023

• PERTH Sat 12 Aug – Juliana Areias – BOSSA & BASS (feat. Tommi Flamenco) at The Ellington Jazz Club 7pm – BOOK NOW 
• ADELAIDE Fri 1 Sep – Juliana Areias, Mike Bevan & Fabian Hevia at Q on Hallett – BOOK NOW
• ADELAIDE Sat 2 Sep – Juliana Areias – Bossa Nova Baby Tour at The WheatSheaf Hotel (feat. Diego Moreira, Nate Franco and Will Saluan) – BOOK NOW
• PERTH Sat 23 Sep – Juliana Areias – Bahia of all rhythms @ The Ellington Jazz Club 7pm – BOOK NOW

Arts & Sports united. Great to see both supporting each other. Thank you FIFA! Juliana Areias Live at FIFA Fan Festival – the official fan destination for the FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2023 in Forrest Place, Perth / Boorloo!

Next stop: Juliana Areias BOSSA & BASS – feat. Tommi Flamenco – Sat 12 Aug at The Ellington Jazz Club – see you there : www.julianaareias.com

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Juliana Areias – Baila Comigo (Dance With Me)

Saturday 01 July 7.00pm – BOOK NOW

Award-winning Brazilian singer-songwriter Juliana Areias, known as the “Bossa Nova Baby,” invites you to dance and celebrate the incredible music, life, and irreverent free spirit of Rita Lee. Rita Lee was a Brazilian superstar singer-songwriter with a career spanning over 50 years, who unfortunately passed away from cancer on May 8, 2023, at the age of 75.

Rita Lee’s eclectic music combines sunny Latin jazz rhythms with psychedelic guitars, smooth bossa-like vocals, and a witty mix of romantic, feminist, and transgressive ideas – all delivered with an elegance rarely found in pop music.

Having sold over 60 million albums worldwide, Rita Lee is considered the greatest musical exponent of São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city with a population exceeding 20 million. Both Rita Lee and Juliana Areias were born and raised in São Paulo, close to Paulista Avenue. The very first song Juliana Areias ever sung in public was a Rita Lee song, the same one that Prince Charles of England (now King) declared as his favorite song of all time. Bossa Nova creator João Gilberto also recorded with Rita Lee, and every iconic Brazilian recording artist since the 60s has performed her tunes. For decades, Rita Lee sang about the beauty of women’s freedom of expression, sexuality, pleasures, desires, and aspirations – well before Madonna and Lady Gaga hit the scene.

The concert will feature selections from Rita Lee’s greatest hits, including the infectious “Lanca Perfume” (Perfume Spray – King Charles’s favorite tune), “Ovelha Negra” (Black Sheep), “Doce Vampiro” (Sweet Vampire), “Mutante” (Changeable), “Nem Lixo, nem Lixo” (Neither Luxury nor Rubbish), as well as a few of her Beatles arrangements and collaborations with other major Brazilian composers and singers such as Cazuza, Zelia Duncan, Ed Motta, and Paulo Coelho (bestselling author of The Alchemist).

Juliana Areias is excited to share the stage with the grooviest cats in town: Paul Millard on sax/flute, Joshua de Silva on seven-string and hybrid guitars, Rafael Medeiro de Souza on percussion, and Joel de Silva on drums.

Come and discover or rediscover these irresistible tunes and perhaps experience Juliana’s own “psychedelic” side as she connects with the legendary intensity of the singular Rita Lee.

Juliana Areias has performed on major stages around the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, the Green Room in New York, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Auckland Festival in New Zealand, and the legendary Beco das Garrafas in Rio de Janeiro. Her original album “Bossa Nova Baby” won “Best Brazilian Album” at the US Focus Brazil Awards in 2019 and spent five weeks in the US Top 100 Jazz Charts. Juliana has also been nominated five times for the Western Australian Music Awards, including Best World Music Act and Best Song. Based in Perth since 2007, Juliana’s local performances include Perth Festival, Perth Concert Hall with West Coast Philharmonic Orchestra, Kings Park Festival, Perth International Jazz Festival, Western Australian of the Year Ceremony 2021 with The Perth Symphony Orchestra, and multiple sold-out concerts at The Ellington Jazz Club.

Now it’s your turn to feel spellbound by the Bossa Nova Baby, Juliana Areias.

The idea of mixing styles and cultures is reflected in Areias’ life and her music.” – Daily

“Rhythmically perfect and passionate vocal delivery. The toast of the Perth Jazz Scene. The release of Bossa Nova Baby has elevated her above a mere covers singer or bossa specialist. The singer excels in an elegant co-composed duet (Belas Artes) with Australia’s finest Brazilian-oriented 7-string guitarist, Doug de Vries” – The Australian

“We celebrate the changing face of Australian music with Brazilian-born, Perth based singer Juliana’s excellent, Bossa Nova-centred album.” – ABC Radio National

“It’s bossa that plays soccer with Jazz – as it has since the 60’s – and scoring a goal.” – O GLOBO – Brazil

“A wonderful Brazilian-Australian bossa nova baby with contemporary bossa nova songs.” – Key and Chords – Belgium

Juliana Areias – ELIS STAR CONCERT

Saturday 20 May 6.00pm –BOOK NOW

Award-winning Brazilian singer Juliana Areias and her Bossa Nova Baby Band invites you to celebrate the music of Elis Regina – Brazil’s most loved voice.

Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) would not be the same if Elis Regina hadn’t discovered and given voice to so many new composers. She was among the first mainstream artist to champion the works of an up-and-coming generation of Brazilian songwriters, including many that had their songs censored by the Brazilian Military Dictatorship – Edu Lobo, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, João Bosco, Ivan Lins, Joyce, Rita Lee. Elis’s rendition of João Bosco and Aldir Blanc’s “O Bêbado e o Equilibrista,” became the anthem of Brazil’s political amnesty movement, as the days of the junta drew to a close in 1984. At the same time, she was probably the finest-and most loyal interpreter of the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bossa Nova’s most defining composer, immortalising many of his songs including “Waters of March”.

Elis Regina signed her first recording contract at the age of fifteen at her hometown of Porto Alegre, in South Brazil, and by 1965 had relocated to Rio and taken Brazil and the world by storm, with triumphant performances such as her Montreux Jazz Festival Concert 1979, TV shows and 30 albums released included the iconic “Elis & Tom”, with Antonio Calos Jobim.

It has been 41 years since Elis tragically died in 1982 of an overdose – mother of three and aged only 36. Yet the beauty of her work keeps inspiring the following generations, including her children; music producer João Marcello Boscolli and singers Pedro Mariano and Maria Rita.

To honour and celebrate Elis’ music and life, Juliana Areias is excited to share the stage with her Bossa Nova Baby Band, comprising the grooviest cats in town; Paul Millard – sax/flute, Joshua de Silva – seven string hybrid guitar, Bronton Ainsworth – drums, and percussionist Rafael Medeiro de Souza.

Juliana Areias has performed on major stages around the world including the Sydney Opera House, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, the Green Room in New York, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Auckland Festival in New Zealand and the legendary Beco das Garrafas in Rio de Janeiro. Her original album “Bossa Nova Baby” won “Best Brazilian Album” at the US Focus Brazil Awards in 2019 and spent five weeks in the US Top 100 Jazz Charts. Juliana has also been nominated five times for Western Australian Music Awards including Best World Music Act and Best Song. Based in Perth since 2007, Juliana’s local performances include Perth Festival, Perth Concert Hall with West Coast Philharmonic Orchestra, Kings Park Festival, Perth International Jazz Festival, Western Australian of the Year Ceremony 2021 with The Perth Symphony Orchestra and multiple sold-out concerts at The Ellington Jazz Club.

Now it is your turn to feel spellbound by the Bossa Nova Baby, Juliana Areias.

–“The idea of mixing styles and cultures is reflected in Areias’ life and her music.”, Daily Record – USA

–“Rhythmically perfect and passionate vocal delivery. The toast of the Perth Jazz Scene. The release of Bossa Nova Baby has elevated her above a mere covers singer or bossa specialist. The singer excels in an elegant co-composed duet (Belas Artes) with Australia’s finest Brazilian-oriented 7-string guitarist, Doug de Vries” – The Australian

–“We celebrate the changing face of Australian music with Brazilian-born, Perth based singer Juliana’s excellent, Bossa Nova-centred album.” – ABC Radio National

–“It’s bossa that plays soccer with Jazz – as it has since the 60’s – and scoring a goal.” – O GLOBO – Brazil

–”A wonderful Brazilian-Australian bossa nova baby with contemporary bossa nova songs.“– Key and Chords – Belgium

ELIS ALSO RECORDED RITA LEE (who died on 8 May 2023) –

Next Concert will be a tribute to Rita Lee, my very first reference as a singer-songwriter. Stay tuned.

Next Concert will be a tribute to Rita Lee, my very first reference as a singer-songwriter.

JULIANA AREIAS – SUNSET SONGS AT NORTH COTTESLOE – EVERY FRIDAY 6-8PM (Beside Barchetta).  Starting on Friday 2nd December 2022 until 28th April 2023.

Bossa Nova & the Beach, the perfect combination. The New Ipanema and New Copacabana is right here at North Cottesloe, with Juliana Areias – the Bossa Nova Baby and friends.

Enjoy Perth’s perfect open air summer nights by the sea featuring Juliana Areias breezy vocals accompanied by guitarists Joshua de Silva, Shon Boublil and percussionist Rafael Medeiros de Souza.

Award-winning Brazilian Jazz singer-songwriter Juliana Areias was personally introduced to the Bossa Nova founders when she was a teenager by the legendary Brazilian music historian and journalist Ruy Castro who also named her “The Bossa Nova Baby”. This direct contact with the bossa masters inspired her to become a professional singer and songwriter.  

Living in Perth since 2007, Juliana Areias celebrates the 3rd consecutive year of her Sunset Songs at North Cottesloe project: “It has been my dream come true to sing gentle bossa nova and bring a bit of the Copacabana 60’s atmosphere to North Cottesloe, my favourite beach in Perth, the place I love to call home. North Cottesloe in many ways is more beautiful than iconic beaches such as Malibu, Bondi, Copacabana and Ipanema. It is wonderful to see that our Sunset Songs Series have been contributing to enhance this perception”.

Recently considered as a Distinguished Global talent by Australia, Juliana Areias has performed on major stages around the world including the Sydney Opera House, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, the Green Room in New York, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Auckland Festival in New Zealand and the legendary Beco das Garrafas in Rio de Janeiro. Dubbed the “Bossa Nova Baby” by iconic Brazilian journalist Ruy Castro, her original album “Bossa Nova Baby” won “Best Brazilian Album” at the US Focus Brazil Awards in 2019 and spent five weeks in the US Top 100 Jazz Charts. Juliana has also been nominated five times for Western Australian Music Awards including Best World Music Act and Best Song.

Now it is your turn to feel spellbound by the Bossa Nova Baby, Juliana Areias.

–“Rhythmically perfect and passionate vocal delivery. The toast of the Perth Jazz Scene. The release of Bossa Nova Baby has elevated her above a mere covers singer or bossa specialist. The singer excels in an elegant co-composed duet (Belas Artes) with Australia’s finest Brazilian-oriented 7-string guitarist, Doug de Vries” – The Australian

–“We celebrate the changing face of Australian music with Brazilian-born, Perth based singer Juliana’s excellent, Bossa Nova-centred album.” – ABC Radio National

–“The idea of mixing styles and cultures is reflected in Areias’ life and her music.”, Daily Record – USA

–“It’s bossa that plays soccer with Jazz – as it has since the 60’s – and scoring a goal.” – O GLOBO – Brazil

–”A wonderful Brazilian-Australian bossa nova baby with contemporary bossa nova songs.“– Key and Chords – Belgium

More information: www.julianaareias.com