Tania Maria live at the North Sea Jazz Festival • 09-07-1988 • World of Jazz

Tania Maria (born May 9, 1948) is a Brazilian artist, singer, composer, bandleader and piano player, singing mostly in Portuguese or English. Her Brazilian-style music is mostly vocal, sometimes pop, often jazzy, and includes samba, bossa, Afro-Latin, pop and jazz fusion Maria has played virtually every important jazz festival in the world and has appeared on countless television and radio programmes. She has recorded more than 25 albums and in 1985 was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category “Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female“ She performed at the annual North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 1978 and has returned there at many times. This superb concert that brought the audience to their feet and gave her a standing ovation, was recorded by AVRO Television at the North Sea Jazz Festival on 9 July 1988 at the Congresgebouw, The Hague, The Netherlands. Line up: Tania Maria (vocals, percussion), Onex Aquino (percussion), Thelmo Porto (drums), Leonard Tra