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Brief Bio: International Jazz Award Nominee (June 2008-Beverley Hills- California-USA), MARIA FARINHA (singer/composer/educator) is internationally recognized as one of the foremost performers of Brazilian Jazz and Bossa Nova. A native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, she began musical studies as a young child and began playing piano professionally at the age of 16. Her career began to soar in the late 1980s in USA with the rise of her new hybrid style of Brazilian Jazz. She studied piano, voice and composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, the University of South Florida, and is currently pursuing a Philosophical Doctoral degree in ethnomusicology at York University in Toronto where she is also a Jazz Vocal teacher

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