Mônica Vasconcelos

As a producer and presenter with the BBC World Service, Mônica Vasconcelos has made radio programmes about the history of bossa nova and the experience of living in Brazil under the military government which seized power in a coup in 1964 and held on to it until 1985. She is also a singer, and tonight’s programme is largely drawn from “São Paulo Tapes”, an album in which the singer and her producer, Robert Wyatt, drew their repertoire from the songs written during the 21-year period of repression by composers such as Chico Buarque, João Bosco, Ivan Lins and Caetano Veloso. Mônica Vasconcelos was born in São Paulo. She has performed on many major festivals and jazz clubs, and the new album is the seventh of her career. Among the members of her band is the pianist Steve Lodder, who appeared at Jazzfest Berlin 2015, playing the music of David Bowie with Dylan Howe’s Subterraneans.

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