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"É toda a exuberância brasileira que se apresenta nesse delicioso disco. Em 12 faixas vitaminadas e com arranjos maravilhosos, Beatriz Azevedo, de voz clara e alegre, faz uma bela homenagem a Oswald de Andrade e ao movimento tropicalista, revisita os canones do jazz e da canção européia. "
PIERRE CUNY [MONDOMIX, FRANÇA]

The extraordinary new recording by Beatriz Azevedo, “Alegria”, has it all—high literary erudition, carnavalesque exuberance, absurdist humor, and audacious experimentalism —the hallmarks of antropofagia. Beatriz further explores the Brazil-U.S. connection in a version of “Ain’t nobody’s business if I do” (“Não é da conta de ninguém”) made famous by Billie Holiday in the 1940s. I think it’s one of the best (and funniest) adaptations of an American classic ever recorded.

Christopher Dunn [USA] Curator advisor: "Tropicália, a revolution in brazilian culture", exhibition at Barbican (London, UK) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, US). Books: Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (edited with Charles Perrone). Routledge, 2001.

Beatriz Azevedo is anthropophagic, a modern tropicalist; her music mixes traditional rhythms, contemporary grooves and poetry. With huge musical and poetic creativity, Beatriz Azevedo is the Brazilian artist you must follow.
SANDRINE TEIXIDO [Vibrations, France]

Chosen by Gilberto Gil to represent her country at the Soccer World Cup in Germany, the songwriter and singer Beatriz Azevedo will perform in Paris at L’Entrepot et at the Divan Du Monde. Mixing percussion, traditional grooves and new rhythmic patterns, Beatriz Azevedo performs with great musicians from Brazil in her band.
C. N. [Le Parisien, Paris, France].

"Perhaps the latest in a great, historic line of poet-songstresses from Brazil, Beatriz's singing is reminiscent of the most recent world star of MPB, sassy Marisa Monte, as much as the likes of the late, vulnerable-voiced Elis Regina. The album from which Cena is taken ('Bum Bum do Poeta', which also boasts the Celso Sim-sung, Azevedo-penned gem Circo) ranges from lounge lizard dub to quirky country samba, with the São Paulo siren announcing herself as a major songwriter and singer of great personality.”
RICK GLANVILL [ENGLAND / UK]
articles and reviews to the Guardian, NME, Vox and Blues e Soul, as well as compiling over 70 world music CDs.

“Beatriz Azevedo embodies originality and class in the world of contemporary Brazilian music. Having earned the respect of discerning music lovers around the world, particularly in her native Brazil, in the UK, and in Japan, she makes a rare appearance in NY tonight.”
DANIEL SHIRAI [Flavorpill New York]

“Beatriz Azevedo’s position musically stands alongside Tom Zé (Bahian, longtime inhabitant of São Paulo), Itamar Assumpção, Arnaldo Antunes, André Abujamra (Karnak), all Paulistas, all multi-artistes. With this CD, one can gauge that Beatriz is not the mistress of a certain type of culture or philosophy, nor a complicated musician. It’s Pop – not the pop music of mass-consumption - she is Pop in the sense of Pop Art.”
JIN NAKAHARA [JAPAN]

"Brazilian singer Beatriz Azevedo is as much poet as songwriter. Her samba-driven arrangements may put you in mind of Arto Lindsay, as will her relaxed vocal delivery".
K. WILLIAMS [Time Out New York]

“Beatriz Azevedo is a recognized Brazilian artist currently making an extended visit to New York. She is an extremely energetic creative artist and performer. Her lyrical side extends to songwriting and performing, as she has released the CD "bum bum do poeta" on Caetano Veloso’s label Natasha Records. All these achievements and her bright personality make Beatriz Azevedo a special artist.”
CHARLES ANDREWS PERRONE [USA]
Ph.D., author of the books "Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song" and "Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization".

“Beatriz Azevedo as a poet is chilling. That is, she dwells deep within the essence of being, without ever losing the subtleties of form. From her album bum bum do poeta, to the sacro-profane performance peripatético poema de chão, we see a common denominator: diamond like and brightly moving like a ballerina of wisdom. Beatriz Azevedo is not only eternal and modern, she is the junction and atomization of vigour, of talent and beauty.”
JORGE MAUTNER
poet and songwriter, Grammy winner with the cd "Caetano Veloso e Jorge Mautner: Eu Não Peço Desculpa" (Universal 2002).

It is the first time that I sing on a CD and participate in a show with a band, I have never done this in my life. Theatre’s greatest refinement is when theatre turns into music, when theatre turns into dance. It’s when prose dissapears and all becomes poetry. Beatriz is a contemporary woman in this sense, she is an actress and a poet, above all, a poet, an extraordinary poet. By being a poet, she wants to be a poet in everything, and she is acheiving exactly that, by mixing everything, and this mix is every artist’s desire.
ZÉ CELSO MARTINEZ CORREA
Director of Teatro Oficina, Brazil’s leading theatrical company

“Beatriz,
we bought your book to have your autograph, a pact of letters and ink and for you to continue your work. My own copy of “Peripathetic” was so often read that the pages show signs of handling. It will be mailed to your house for you to put your spell and your signature on, and then to send it back to me again, the reader and owner of the book that was yours and now is ours.”
TOM ZÉ
tropicalist musician and composer, released in US by Luaka Bop's cds "Fabrication Defect", "The Hips of Tradition", "Brazil Classiscs 4:Tom Zé", and others.