Cândida
NYC - Rio de Janeiro
CB is a pianist, singer, composer, songwriter - from Brazil, based in New York. She is a multi-media artist and performer that holds two artistic personalities. One classically trained, Master in Piano Performance, Researcher, Professor, doing a PhD in Composition in the UK; the other one, learned from a very artistic family and community from the northeast of Brazil (Bahia), where singing, playing, writing, performing is part of daily life and sacrality. CB is an artist creating and composing life primarily, looking for new organic human expressions mainly through music, image in video and photography, gestures and movement, communication and social interaction, storytelling and fantasying. Immigration, diaspora, ethnicities, african and indigenous mythology, nature, religions, rituals are her subjects of interest. To give voice to tradition towards the future, to be organic and high tech, to experiment and discover methods to connect music, image, gesture - the space in between arts and time.
CB has been working mainly in electronic music, as a producer and in collaboration with other producers around the world, for films, ballets and artists.
She is currently working on a new album with the american DJ/ Producer Corey Baker (Pattern Drama) for Touch of Class Records, preparing to debut a project in duo with the producer Max Wild (NY/Berlin), and working on the compositions of her PhD Project DNArchive.
Contact/ Booking/ Hiring:
www.candidamusic.com
contact.candidamusic@gmail.com
Cândida’s tracks
published on