About Ceumar

Introduction
Here's a crystal clear voiced brazilian singer, named "Ceumar" ( pronounced as "say-ooh-mar") , whose name could have been an artistic reference: heaven (Ceu) and the sea (Mar) - very lyrical and a justifying metaphor for her musical approach.

Minas Gerais
When asked, Ceumar will reveal the truth of her name: it's a combination of her father's and mother's names. At home in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the young Ceumar was exposed to the music of artists like Milton Nascimento, Lo Borges, Clube da Esquina, Joyce and Boca Livre. When starting her own musical adventure, Ceumar tended to choose the less obvious road, not very eager to sing the songs "everybody" already sung before her. That was illustrated by her more or less first show, which she called "30 Músicas que você não ouve no radio" (30 Songs you don't hear on the radio) and contained songs by Egberto Gismonti, A Barca do Sol, Hermeto Pascoal and others.

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She has made performances with premier Brazilian artists such as Vitor Ramil, Nilson Chaves, Lui Coimbra, Sergio Perere, Mauricio Tizumba. ceumar & jazztrio Last years she performed a lot in Europe with a wonderful jazztrio from Amsterdam NL ( Mike del Ferro - Olaf Keus - Frans van der Hoeven ) and with the african-european-brazilian crossover group Kokoura. Recently Ceumar also performed with the great American jazz-singer Deborah Carter, the Krasz Collective and with the project Balkan Meets Brasil feat. Oleg Fateev and Simone Soul.

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During the last 5 years, Ceumar made performances in Curitiba (Paiol, Guairinha), Itajai – Santa Catarina (Winter Festival), Porto Alegre (Santander Cultural), Campinas, Rio de Janeiro (Novo Canto Project, Bolsa Nova Project), Belem (SESC DOCA), Sao Luis (Circo da Cidade), Brasilia (CCBB, Feitico Mineiro), Belo Horizonte (TIM Mov. Perc – 2005) besides her performances in Sao Paulo – capital and countryside.

In 2005, joined the Projeto Pixinguinha (Pixinguinha Project) roaming about the North and Center regions of Brazil. She also joined the Festival Cultura (Cultura Festival) exibited by the TV Channel “ TV Cultura”, with the song ACHOU! (by Dante Ozzetti and Luiz Tatit) achieving the second place.

In 2006 & 2007 Ceumar performed many shows in The Netherlands, Spain and Belgium. Some of these concerts were together with guitarist Dante Ozzetti, others were accompanied by the Mike Del Ferro Trio or Kokoura.

Highlights

Festival Mundial, Bimhuis Amsterdam, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tropentheater Amsterdam, De Doelen Rotterdam, Zuiderpershuis Antwerpen (Belgium), Rasa Utrecht (NL), Sfinx Festival( Belgium), SESC Sao Paulo - Villa Mariana, Budapest Congress Centre

About the cd's

Ceumar & Trio: Live In Amsterdam

The cd's 'Live in Amsterdam' and 'Meu Nome' areonline for sale for iTunes, Amazon, eMusic etc!

Her newest (5th) cd 'Live in Amsterdam' shows the colorful and versatile musical skills of Ceumar. Besides the Brazilian style we already know from her, she here proves to be a great jazzsinger as well! Accompanied by a jazztrio from Amsterdam ( Del Ferro - Keus - Van der Hoeven) this live recording made in the famous Tropentheater Amsterdam shows the wonderful blend of contemporary Brazilian songs and jazz.

With her 4th cd 'MEU NOME' Ceumar proves her live strength and emotions. This solo-cd is already considered to be one of the best contemporary ( a subtle mix af Brazilian folk, pop, jazz & samba ) albums from Brazil! Recorded completely live in the FECAP-theatre in the heart of Sao Paulo, Ceumar shows why she is so popular! With only a voice and her guitar she takes the audience into the wonderful colored world of Ceumar with own compositions and lyrics. Telling about beautiful colors, love, saudade. Sometimes the lyrics are serious, sometimes sad or even playful! But always she sings direct from the heart.

Instrumentation: Ceumar : vocals, guitar, percussion. On some tracks additional piano or percussion by Yaniel Matos or Sergio Perere

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dindinhaDindinha (2000) - On her first well received cd Dindinha (2000), then 28-year-old Ceumar was assisted by Zeca Baleiro, who not only delivered songs to the album, but also produced it. Some of this songs were distributed by the independent labels Nascente and Putumayo (Music from the Coffe Lands II) to some european and american countries. During two years, Ceumar presented Didinha in many brazilians states as Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Parana and foreing countries as Portugal and China. She also has been in international festivals in Hong Kong, Portugal, Belgium (SFINKS FESTIVAL), France (Nuits Atypiques) and in private events in London.

sempre vivaSempre Viva - On her second album, the Itanhandu (Minas Gerais) born, but now Sao Paulo based singer, continues that road. This time producing her own cd and also making her debut as a composer. On Sempre Viva Ceumar moves on to the next thing, not on an outlined route, but more as an expression to where she stands now, what she wants to do, being the very creative talent. Some arrangements and lyrics are partnerships with great brazilian musicians and composers as Paulo Lepetit, Webster Santos, Rogerio Delayon and Swami Jr (arrangements); Gero Camilo, Tata Fernandes, Zeca Baleiro and Chico Cesar (Lyrics). This performance has been presented in Brazil´s states as Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Parana, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Sempre viva has also been shown in Leuven Festival in Belgium.

The approach on this album confirms Ceumar's creative mind and sense for adventure combining an unique universe, rythms as ballads, samba, xotes and jongos, along with her remarkable clear voice and outstanding musicality.

achuoAchou! - Collaboration between composer and guitarist Dante Ozetti and Ceumar. Well received album in the Brazilian press and followed by a Brazilian tour in 2007-2008.