Artist description Brazilian Vocalist and Guitarist Téka, accompanied by a group of excellent jazz musicians.

Music Style Brazilian / Jazz New Bossa, a music with its roots in the Samba. It is melodically and harmonically as rich as the Bossa Nova style developed in the late 1950s, but with a definite new twist.

Musical Influences Tom Jobim, Elis Regina, Billy Holiday and Joao Gilberto

Similar Artists Elis Regina & Joyce and Milton Nascimento

Artist History Téka provides an interesting combination of the sensual rhythms of Brazil and Jazz. A 1993 nominee for a Boston Music Award for Outstanding Latin Act, she also has performed and recorded with many artists. Among them, her husband composer Paris Psaros on their CD entitled Garden Planet. In a departure from Brazilian Jazz, she appeared as a soloist with the Santa Barbara Oratorio Chorale in their 1995 and 1997 California performances of Canto General by Mikis Theodorakis and Pablo Neruda.

Group Members Téka & Páris

Instruments Voice, Guitar and a variety of percussion, winds and horns.

Albums Garden Planet and Watercolours of Brazil

Press Reviews New England Performer Magazine by Debbie Catalano September 1993 A pleasantly different press kit accompanied this equally pleasant cassette by Brazilian singer Téka along with her husband composer Páris Psaros. They successfully draw a musical picture of the environmentally conscious-geared lyrics, with music that is just dripping of nature, tropics and earthiness in the form of smooth, mellow, easy-listening jazz. Both are accomplished musicians in Brazil and recognized among their circuit in Boston. Songs with titles like 'Back with the tide', 'Garden Planet' and 'Harvest' are perfect examples of what Téka's music is all about. Great percussion throughout; beautiful effects and strings in the instrumental 'Harvest' (is that a sitar I hear?!) and warm, feeling, smooth vocals highlight this recording. It was refreshing, enjoyable and alerting to nature and the Earth. A finale of 'Nowhere to be' is a break from the others with great big band jazz sound - Excelent!

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Location Santa Barbara, CA - USA

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