Leila Pinheiro

Brazil

Born: 16 October 1960

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Latin, Jazz, International

Styles: World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Samba, Latin America, Latin America, MPB, Bossa Nova, Afro-Cuban, Latin Jazz

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Leila Pinheiro is a renowned singer who established a name in bossa nova and then started to explore the Brazilian pop field. At ten, she began her music studies. Four years later, she abandoned music theory and started to have piano classes with Guilherme Coutinho. In 1978, she enrolled at the FEMP medicine course, abandoning it two years later, when she launched her career in the show Sinal de Partida, at Belém's Teatro da Paz. In the next year, she moved to Rio de Janeiro RJ and independently recorded her first album, Leila Pinheiro, which ...

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