1. Sofia Eugenia Koutsovitis, known professionally as Sofia Rei, is an Argentine vocalist, songwriter, producer, and educator.
22 Facts About Sofia Rei
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Sofia Rei has worked with John Zorn, Bobby McFerrin, Marc Ribot, and Maria Schneider.
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Sofia Rei is the co-founder of El Colectivo Sur, an arts collective based in New York City that aims to increase public awareness of South American music and assemble diverse communities.
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Sofia Rei teaches at Berklee College of Music's Global Initiatives, including its itinerant program Berklee Latino directed by Oscar Stagnaro and Javier Limon.
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Sofia Rei began to study music at 4, and as a child she sang with vocal groups and school choirs.
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Sofia Rei began her professional career at nine as a member of the Colon Teatro Children's Choir, and later joined Argentina's National Children's Choir at Teatro Nacional Cervantes.
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Sofia Rei stopped performing professionally as she started high school at Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
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Fully immersed in improvised music and jazz, Sofia Rei decided to come to the United States to continue her education.
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Sofia Rei graduated from the New England Conservatory with a Master's in Jazz and Improvisation in 2003.
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Sofia Rei moved to New York in 2005, and in 2006 toured internationally with the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra.
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Sofia Rei collaborated with Geoff Keezer on his Grammy-nominated album, Aurea.
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Sofia Rei wrote eight of the twelve tracks which appeared on Sube Azul, and co-produced the album with Roeder.
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Sofia Rei explained the Spanish lyrics of loss, hardship, and celebration, but the music didn't need much in the way of translation.
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Sofia Rei was chosen as a featured vocalist to premier the work as part of The Jazz Gallery's "New Voices" concert series.
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Sofia Rei is a founding member of Mycale, a New-York based international a cappella quartet with Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Malika Zarra and Basya Schechter.
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Sofia Rei is part of John Zorn's Song Project with Mike Patton and Jesse Harris.
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Sofia Rei has recorded, performed or collaborated with artists including Frank London, the Klezmatics, Guillermo Klein, Ezequiel Vinao, the Panamerican Symphony Orchestra, Clarice Assad, Curupira, Las Anez, Celso Duarte, Lionel Loueke, John Scofield, Danilo Perez, Susana Baca, Eva Ayllon, Pavel Urkiza, Russ Ferrante, Bob Moses, Steve Lacy, Aquiles Baez, C4 Trio, Aca Seca, Pedrito Martinez and La Bomba de Tiempo.
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Sofia Rei is currently a Professor at NYU's Clive Davis Institute, where she teaches in the areas of Performance and Musicianship, while serving as the Director of Global Studies.
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Sofia Rei has taught at the New England Conservatory and the New School College of Performing Arts, offering workshops internationally on vocal improvisation and styles training.
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Sofia Rei appeared unscripted on the program Conan in a remote with Conan O'Brien.
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Sofia Rei was talking on her phone with her sister when Conan, who was looking for an address while doing a comedy bit of delivering Chinese food, saw her while she was reclining on the open window of her apartment and greeted her.
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Sofia Rei greeted back, gave him directions and taught him to drink Argentine mate.