[Musicians] Marisa de Azevedo Monte

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• Musician Name: Marisa de Azevedo Monte
• Birthday / Location:  July 1, 1967 (54 years old) Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
• Main instrument: MPB pop samba
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• Other Information: Marisa de Azevedo Monte OMC (Rio de Janeiro, July 1, 1967) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer.
• Marisa has sold over 10 million albums and has won numerous national and international awards, including four Latin Grammys, seven Video Music Brasil, nine Multishow Brazilian Music Awards, five APCA and six TIM Music Awards. The artist is considered by Rolling Stone Americana magazine as the fourth greatest Brazilian singer, only behind Elis Regina, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia. She also has two albums (MM and Verde, Anil, Amarelo, Cor-de-Rosa and Carvão) in the list of the 100 best albums of Brazilian music.
• In October 2021, Marisa was honored at the 44th edition of the Tenco Award, for her work as a singer and songwriter, becoming the first female Brazilian artist to receive this honor.
• Born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, daughter of engineer Carlos Saboia Monte and Sylvia Marques de Azevedo Monte. Marisa is a descendant of Branca Dias, a new Christian woman and a planter from the Brazilian colonial period in Pernambuco. This was prosecuted by the Holy Office on the charge of secretly practicing Judaism.
• She studied singing, piano and drums as a child. In 1982, she participated in the musical The Rocky Horror Show, directed by Miguel Falabella, with students from Colégio Andrews. She began studying opera singing at the age of fourteen, taking classes almost every day of the week.
• In 1983, after listening to a tape with songs from young talents, Roberto Menescal, then artistic director of the extinct PolyGram label, fell in love with Marisa and proposed recording a record, but this proposal was refused by the young woman who was not prepared to the project at the time. At the age of 18, in 1985, Marisa officially records her first studio song for the film Tropclip. The song "Sábado à Noite" was written by Sérgio Sá and marked the singer's debut on the music scene.