Patrícia Marx was, in the 80’s a phenomenon inside the phenomenon that was the teen music at that time. After making part, during four years, of the group Trem da Alegria, wich made a resounding national success, since 1988 she developed a very commercially successful solo career, represented by 3 albuns launched by BMG.
So, time passed by, teenage has finished and Patricia has started, as it was unavoidable, her artistic growth. First, in 1982, she has done a album for the Japanese market, called “Neoclassico”, interpretating standards of the Brazilian music, from Pixinguinha to Tom Jobim, from Noel Rosa to Rita Lee. Afterwards, from 1995 to 1998, already incorporating the “Marx” to her artistic name, she has recorded, with a Nelson Mota production and for his solo, the Lux Music/ Universal, three albuns, the first of them with the song “Quando Chove”(When it Rains), that has become a hit in the soap opera “A Viagem” (The Trip), of Globo TV.
Afterwards, in 1988, Patrícia travelled to New York and more nine cities in Japan to divulge “Millenium”, a compilation with some of the best moments of the singer during all her career. The live versions of “Samba de Verão” (Summer Samba), with Marcos Valle and “Sabiá”, with Nando Cordel, open the set of 20 hits of Patricia, that, after this album, decides to stop to “breath” for four years.
Meantime she got married to the producer Bruno E, with whom she has had one son e took the chance to meditate and recycle ideas. Four years after, back from her retreat, it appears a new Patricia, musically more sophisticated and elaborated.
In the album “Respirar”(Breath), issued by Trama, in 2001, it signs, at the same time, with a continuation and a jump referring to the formers. A continuation because this happens through the incorporation of electronic elements that were brand new to the music she uses to do (“Respirar” is a Brazilian electronic music disc, directed to the public of this production, here and in Europe)
Besides that, Patricia appears, for the first time as a composer (only one of the 12 sound tracks doesn’t have her signature, what confers to the disc an authorial status) and also as a producer, function shared with Bruno E, producer of electronic music, nu-jazz and soul music and Mad Zoo, the greatest producer from São Paulo of hip hop, nu jazz, break beat and soul music.
From the British electronic scenery – where she shines us one of the greatest stars in this album – the 4Hero.
The participation of the group marks the second chapter of the history of an association startes 5 years ago, when Patricia was invited to go to London, to sing for their disc – the “Creating Patterns”.
In 2002, Patricia went to live in London for one year, to promote her album and made three tours around Europe. Performing in the main European capitals, in places such us Favela Chic (Paris), ICA, Cargo, Notting Hill Carnival, Momos (London), La Palma Jazz Club (Rome), Quasimodo Jazz Club (Berlin), Amsterdan, Vienna, Lisbon, Swiotzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Netherlands and others.
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Pictures by André Spinola e Castro
