Brazilian / Brazilian jazz / Soul/R&B

Festival de Jazz – Brazil’s Luedji Luna Brings The Snow to Montreal

by Sandra Gasana

Despite the first snowfall of the season, this didn’t stop music lovers from coming to Studio TD to see Bahian singer Luedji Luna. Not her first time in the metropolis, but a first in this venue. “I remember when I first came to Montreal, it was for the Festival de Jazz, outdoors,” she recalls. Most of the songs were taken from her third album Bom Mesmo é Estar Debaixo d’Àgua Deluxe, with a track of the same name. Accompanied by her musicians – drums, bass, keyboards and percussion – she took to the stage wearing an electric grey dress. With her unique blend of jazz, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, soul and RnB, she offers us a Brazilian version of some of the classics that rocked our youth. She opens with Metàfora, which sounds like something straight out of the 90s, and Pele, on which she collaborated with Ethiopian artist Mereba, who wasn’t there but whose voice we heard.

She covers two classics during her show, Sade’s No Ordinary Love and a track by Brazilian artist Djavan, but adds her own touch to it. In fact, she launched the “Luedji Sings Sade” concept in Brazil. Of course, she couldn’t leave without performing the song that marked a turning point in her career, Banho de Folhas, to which she invites the crowd to dance, much to their delight.

The opening act was Glowzi, a DJ/singer accompanied by a trumpet player, and together they set the perfect mood to welcome Luedji, mixing soul, electro, RnB and jazz. They also took the opportunity to send a message of solidarity to Palestine, Darfur and the Tigray region.

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