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Catina DeLuna

​Brazilian pianist, vocalist, composer and voice actress Catina DeLuna has enjoyed a successful and varied musical career since beginning to play the piano and sing at a young age. After completing a B.A. in Brazilian Popular Music at the prestigious UNICAMP University in São Paulo, she founded two award winning groups: the vocal group Arirê, in which she was responsible for arranging, playing piano, and singing, and the group Serenata Brasileira, playing classic Brazilian songs from the 1920’s and 30’s, in full authentic costume and style. Catina currently has two independent released CDs available, Na Era de Ouro, from Serenata Brasileira, and Brazilian Accent, her solo debut featuring classic Bossa Nova standards.​ Additionally, Catina has been a guest artist in Japan, Singapore and the United States, as well as recording many commercial jingles/voice-overs for national radio and television in Brazil. Since her move to the United States, Catina served as visiting scholar at Uof I at Urbana-Champaign, and obtained her M.M.A. at Northern Illinois University where she was awarded a grant from the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies to carry out research on maracatu in Brazil during the summer of 2008. Now living in Los Angeles, she teaches music in her private studio in Santa Clarita, CA, as well as in several renown schools and conservatories, including Shephard University, SilverLake Conservatory, Los Angeles Music Academy and University of Southern California (guest faculty), Los Angeles College of Music LACM (guest faculty). With a special repertoire based on lesser known Brazilian styles, Catina has been performing in the top jazz venues in Southern California co-leading the Group “Lado B Brazilian Project”. In 2015 Catina DeLuna and pianist, arranger and producer Otmaro Ruiz Joined forces to release a highly acclaime album "Catina DeLuna & Lado B Brazilian Project featuring Otmaro Ruiz". The record has now received an official GRAMMY nomination for the 2016 Grammys in the category of Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals.

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Catina De Luna, Otmaro Ruíz, Roswell Rudd, Sheila Jordan

Read "Catina De Luna, Otmaro Ruíz, Roswell Rudd, Sheila Jordan" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


A two-fer on this week's edition of Caminhos do Jazz... First up is Lado B Brazilian Project 2 (Sunnyside, 2025), from Brazilian singer-pianist Catina De Luna and Venezuelan guitarist and arranger-producer Otmaro Ruíz, the second installment of the illustrious duo's B-side project. Read our review here. The idea of the project is to interpret what we might call Great Brazilian Songbook--compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Dorival Caymmi, Ivan Lins, Ary Barroso and their ilk--but focusing on their lesser-known ...

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Catina DeLuna & Otmaro Ruíz: Lado B Brazilian Project 2

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Catina DeLuna and Otmaro Ruíz have once again teamed up to explore the rich tapestry of Brazilian music in Lado B Brazilian Project 2. As a follow-up to their earlier exploration of this repertoire, this album sees the duo delve even deeper into Brazil's lyrical and melodic treasures, producing results that are both innovative and rooted in tradition. They have assembled a stellar band to perform Ruíz's arrangements, including two carry-overs from their first edition: guitarist Larry Koonse and bassist ...

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Catina DeLuna & Otmaro Ruíz: Lado B Brazilian Project 2

Read "Lado B Brazilian Project 2" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


In a time of disembodied digital-only releases, luxuriously well-crafted albums like Catina DeLuna and Otmaro Ruiz's Lado B Brazilian Project 2, with physical disk, album notes, lyric translations and evocative graphics, can really be the balm. The project was born in 2015 with the release of Lado B Brazilian Project (Self Produced), which received a Grammy nomination in 2016. The idea was to interpret what we might call Great Brazilian Songbook--classics by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Dorival ...

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