Marisa de Azevedo Monte (

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: /maˈɾizɐ dʒi azeˈvedu ˈmõtʃi/) (born 1 July 1967) is a Brazilian singer, composer, instrumentalist, and producer of Brazilian popular music and samba. As of 2011, she had sold 10 million albums worldwide and has won numerous national and international awards, including four

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, seven Brazilian MTV Video Music Awards, nine Multishow de Música Brasileira awards, 5 APCAs, and six Prêmio TIM de Música. Marisa is considered by ''Rolling Stone Brasil'' to be the second greatest singer, behind only

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. She also has two albums (''MM'' and ''Verde, Anil, Amarelo, Cor-de-Rosa e Carvão'') on the list of the 100 best albums of Brazilian music.

Biography

Monte was born in

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, daughter of the engineer Carlos Saboia Monte and Sylvia Marques de Azevedo Monte. On her father's side, she is descended from the Saboias, one of the oldest Italian families in

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. She studied singing, piano, and drums as a child, and began studying opera singing at 14. After failing to break through into 1980s Brazilian

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she went into semi-exile in Italy, where she met the famous producer

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. Thereafter she became a hybrid of MPB

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and

performer. While most of her music is in the style of modern MPB, she has also recorded traditional samba and

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, largely in collaboration with such musicians and songwriters as

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, and

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and producer

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. She has also collaborated with the New York pop music vanguard, including Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Marc Ribot, Bernie Worrell and Philip Glass.

Career

Monte owns the rights to all of her songs; it was her chief demand for renewing her contract with EMI Music. She also released her single "Não é Proibido", which was also used in the soundtrack of a video game by

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Discography

Live albums

Compilation albums

Video albums

References

External links

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French site on Marisa Monte
{{DEFAULTSORT:Monte, Marisa 1967 births Living people 20th-century Brazilian women singers 20th-century Brazilian singers Brazilian mezzo-sopranos Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian women guitarists Latin Grammy Award winners Música Popular Brasileira singers Música Popular Brasileira guitarists Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian women singer-songwriters 21st-century Brazilian women singers 21st-century Brazilian singers Women in Latin music