Luciana Souza was born on 12 July 1966 and is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who works in bossa nova, pop, classical and chamber music.
16 Facts About Luciana Souza
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Luciana Souza won a Grammy Award in 2007, and has been nominated for seven others, most recently in 2024.
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Luciana Souza's father Walter Santos was a singer, songwriter, and commercial musician who contributed background vocals to bossa nova recordings by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, and her mother Tereza Souza was a poet and lyricist.
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Luciana Souza began her recording career at age three with a radio commercial.
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Luciana Souza earned a master's degree in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory of Music and taught for four years at the Manhattan School of Music.
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Luciana Souza has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and California Institute of the Arts, and since 2024 is a professor at the USC Thornton School of Music.
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Luciana Souza has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin, Maria Schneider, Danilo Perez, Guillermo Klein, John Patitucci, and others.
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Luciana Souza has been a soloist in new works by composers including Osvaldo Golijov, Derek Bermel, Patrick Zimmerli, Rachel Grimes, Angelica Negron, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, performing with the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, American Composers Orchestra, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and A Far Cry.
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Luciana Souza produced her first album, An Answer to Your Silence, herself.
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Luciana Souza was San Francisco Performances' jazz artist in residence from 2005 through 2010.
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Luciana Souza collaborated with Trio Corrente on her 2023 album Cometa, with covers of Brazilian classics and original samba songs.
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In 2006, Luciana Souza married record producer and musician Larry Klein.
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Luciana Souza won a Grammy Award in 2007 as a featured vocalist on "Amelia" on Herbie Hancock's album River: The Joni Letters.
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Luciana Souza was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Brazilian Duos, North and South, Duos II, Tide, and The Book of Chet.
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Luciana Souza was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album for Duos III and Cometa.
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Luciana Souza was named Female Singer of the Year in 2005 and 2013 by the Jazz Journalists Association.