1. Flora Purim was born on March 6,1942 and is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style.
20 Facts About Flora Purim
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Flora Purim became prominent for her part in Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke.
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Flora Purim has recorded and performed with numerous artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, Opa, Stan Getz, George Duke, Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jaco Pastorius, and her husband Airto Moreira.
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In 2002, Purim was the recipient of one of Brazil's highest awards, the 2002 Ordem do Rio Branco for Lifetime Achievement.
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Flora Purim has been called "The Queen of Brazilian Jazz".
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Flora Purim was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Jewish parents who were classical musicians.
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Flora Purim's father Naum Purim played violin and her mother Rachel Vaisberg was a pianist.
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Flora Purim would bring home those 78 vinyl RPMs and when my father was at work, she would play them.
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Flora Purim began her career in Brazil during the early 1960s.
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Later in the 1960s, Flora Purim was lead singer for the Quarteto Novo, led by Hermeto Pascoal and Airto Moreira.
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Brazilian musician Moacir Santos taught Flora Purim to read and write music in Los Angeles in the late 1960s.
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In 1973, Flora Purim released her first solo album in the United States, titled Butterfly Dreams.
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Flora Purim worked with Carlos Santana and Mickey Hart at outdoor festivals and on jazz and classical albums through the 1970s.
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Later in the 1990s Flora Purim released her own album and world tour, Speed of Light starting with a month at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, London, with a new band with contributions from Billy Cobham, Freddie Ravel, George Duke, David Zeiher, Walfredo Reyes Jr.
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Flora Purim owes a great debt to Chick Corea, discovering the fusion jazz style for which she is best known when Corea asked her to add vocals to some recordings of his compositions.
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Flora Purim expanded her vocal repertoire during early tours with Gil Evans.
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Flora Purim was imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island in Los Angeles, California in August 1974 for cocaine possession; she was given the inmate number 2775.
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Flora Purim usually performed these concerts with little or no rehearsal time, for about an hour.
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Flora Purim's father, Naum Purim, was a Romanian Jewish immigrant from Moghilau, then part of the Russian Empire.
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Flora Purim's sister Yana Purim is a jazz singer.