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She has participated in summer courses and workshops organized by Camerata XXI Musical Avignon (with Victor Correa).
She has played and sung in several big bands, jazz bands and combos; EMM in Premia de Mar, the EMM Badalona, the Big Band under the direction of Òrrius … Pere Paye, Josep Traver, Carles Vecino, Joan Moragues … In July 2013 she entered the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, under the direction of Joan Chamorro and since then she has made a huge musical progression. taking part in many concerts in different formats (Barcelona Jazz Festival, Jazz Jamboree Club Auditorium, Barnaswing, Summer Festivals in several villages of Catalonia, concerts in Almería, Valencia, France, Switzerland …), and also a 2 CD edition of “Joan Chamorro presents Magic Voice” along with the voices and music of Andrea Motis, Eva Fernández and Magali Datzira and Ignasi Terraza (piano ), Josep Traver (guitar), Esteve Pi (drums) and Joan Chamorro (bass and sax), and the CD “Joan Chamorro presents Rita Payés”, with the participation of all the musicians mentioned above and Scott Robinson, Scott Hamilton, Dick Oats, Toni Belenguer, Jo Krause … among others.
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Rita Payés At Jazz à La Villette, In Paris
			
				by Pierre Lavoie
				
							
On September 6, 2025, the Jazz à la Villette Festival in Paris presented Rita Payés, a 26-year-old Catalan singer, trombone player, composer, arranger, and lyricist, who has been on stage since her early teens. This performer is in a category of her own, pursuing her personal musical projects with a singularity that has become her signature. Born to a family of musicians, she sings and writes in Catalan, Castilian Spanish, and Portuguese--and sometimes in English, having spent her ...
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				JazzWax by Marc Myers
				
					
									
			
				Born in 1999 in Vilassar de Mar, a seaside suburb just north of Barcelona, Spain, Rita Payés grew up with musician parents and played piano and guitar and sang. She started her music studies at the School of Music in Premià de Mar and, at age 8, she attended the School of Modern Music in Badalona. There, she studied trombone with David Sanabria and Joan Palacio. In 2017 she joined the esteemed Sant Andreu Jazz Band led by bassist and ...
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