Andreia João Viana Lopes was born in Sintra, Portugal, on November 4th, 1978.
Andreia's soul and heart are hands tight with Portuguese Music and all "Lusofonias".
Alongside the repertoire that she carefully selected to live presentations, Andreia is starting a new cycle composing original Portuguese Music, someting she never did before.
Oai d'Ir, is a non-traditional project based in tradicional music. Original repertoire of acoustic songs based on Portuguese and world percussions, and also based in melody, using ethnic instruments, including instruments of traditional Portuguese root. A project produced by Miguel Simoes and Andreia Joao in co-authorship.
Currently she is singing with CRAMOL, a huge polyphonic chorus of women. In the repertoire there are several national songbook, careful choices of Giacometti / Lopes-Graça and José Alberto Sardinha, but also from other sources duly identified. They are songs of work, of celebration, and more.
A permanent search of ancient sounds, a group of women, in 1979, have decided to enjoy and develop, together, the females traditional singing, one of the richest heritage of portuguese tradicional music "a capella". Decussate in singing the sacred and the profane, the life cycle, the cycle of nature and the cycle religious, Cramol seeks to discover the essence of rural women in their daily lives.
The adventure began in a workshop at Oeiras, in the cultural association Oeirense Library Workers (1933). There, a group of young women decide to learn and find a corner of many primeval sounds. The presentations made public the urgent formation of an autonomous group and name. Thus was born the Cramol.
THEATER VOICE PERFORMER
The producer David Martins, invited her voice to his musical compositions, targeted for theater performances, such as "Memorial do Convento", "Memórias de Branca Dias" and now "Vieira - O Céu na Terra", a scene at the historical monument, Carmo Convent Ruins.
A new challenge that gives her ability to voice representation and experimentalism.
