原名：Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças 国籍：巴西 职业：创作歌手 生日：1980 年 4 月 17 日 歌手名：Céu 简介：Céu，是一名巴西创作歌手，其首张美国专辑于 2007 年 4 月由六度唱片公司 (Six Degrees Records )发行。Céu 出生于巴西圣保罗的一个音乐世家。她的父亲是一位作曲家、编曲家和音乐学家。正是从父亲那里，她学会了欣赏巴西的古典音乐作曲家，尤其是Heitor Villa-Lobos、Ernesto Nazaré和Orlando Silva。 15 岁时，她决定成为一名音乐家，并在十几岁时学习了音乐理论，以及维奥拉（一种尼龙弦巴西吉他）。她的歌曲受到多种音乐风格的影响，包括桑巴舞、阿尔萨舞、肖罗舞、灵魂乐、节奏布鲁斯、嘻哈、非洲节奏和电子爵士乐。[ 3 ]她表示，非裔美国人Billie Holiday、Ella Fitzgerald、Lauryn Hill、Erykah Badu和Jorge Ben的音乐都对她产生了影响。 十几岁的时候，Céu 开始在舞台上表演，探索世纪之交的狂欢节音乐曲目。此后不久，她暂时搬到了纽约市，在那里遇到了巴西音乐家安东尼奥·平托(Antônio Pinto) ，后来她得知他是她的远房表亲。当安东尼奥与电影《我的祖国在节日里》 (2007)配乐的首席制作人贝托·维拉雷斯 (Beto Villares) 合作帮助她录制专辑时，他们的关系又恢复了。安东尼奥·平托是 Céu 歌曲《Ave Cruz》的制作人，也是两部获得奥斯卡提名的电影《中央车站》 (1999) 和《上帝之城》 (2002)的配乐作曲家。 从艺历程：CéU proved to one of the more internationally appealing singers to break out of Brazil around the time of her 2005 debut, ultimately winning a Latin Grammy nomination for Best New Artist and garnering interest for herself in Europe and North America. Her singing is what earned her acclaim, yet her music is novel as well, a fusion of samba, reggae, and electronica, with touches of jazz and soul. She was born Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças in São Paulo; however, she bills herself as simply CéU. (In Portuguese, céu can mean either sky or heaven, depending on the context; more specifically, the word comes from the Latin word cælu and refers to the infinite space overhead, including the sky as well as the cosmos.) She grew up in a music family; her father is a composer, arranger, and musicologist. At an early age, she learned to appreciate renowned Brazilian composers such as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazareth, and Orlando Silva, and as a teenager, she decided to become a singer. Rather than go to college, she studied music, including theory as well as the violão, a nylon-stringed guitar native to Brazil. CéU eventually moved to New York City for a while once she was old enough to leave home. There she encountered many new influences, including old-school jazz singers such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald as well as contemporary R&B singers such as Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu. Also while in New York City, she befriended Antonio Pinto, a fellow Brazilian musician; he is perhaps best known for composing the score to City of God (2002), among other films. In time, after moving back to Brazil and fronting a couple groups, CéU recorded her debut album, a self-titled release produced largely by Beto Villares, with the aid of Pinto. CéU was released in 2005 by Urban Jungle, a label based in São Paulo, in partnership with Ambulante Discos, Villares' label. The album was later licensed by Six Degrees, a stylish label based in San Francisco that is known for its catalog of Brazilian releases, after CéU had already been met with success in parts of Europe, including France -- and, by association, French-speaking Canada as well. Thanks to the buzz surrounding her debut, CéU earned a Latin Grammy nomination in 2006 for Best New Artist.