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Zanna Z

voc, acg, BR
Singer / Musician / Composer of Jazz, Latin and Pop
A.k.a. Rozana Bruno Bruna Loppez

Brazilian singer, composer and guitarist. Born in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, by the age of 7 she started to study flute, and later took acoustic guitar lessons by 11, and singing lessons by age 14. Those fundamentals, along with her talent, ensured her stepping on stage by the age of 16 to play “other people’s music” – a repertoire that ranged from Noel Rosa to Manoel de Falla. At the age of 18, after registering at a music school, Zanna realized the pace would be too slow for someone who had come so far on their own. She gave up the VW Beetle car she had bought with money saved from her singing and playing in night clubs and bars for a ticket to Italy, the land of her ancestors, and followed her own path. This university of life experience, a period with Bossa Nostra, an Italian group that mixed pop, jazz and bossa, served as her Master’s degree. Using the artistic name Bruna Loppez, she joined Bossa Nostra by the late 90s as a singer and songwriter. One of Zanna’s songs from that time, “Inverno,” recorded with the group on the album “Kharmalion” (1999), is now back with a new and timeless touch. With Bossa Nostra, Zanna also traveled around the world playing in night clubs and at festivals, including the Montreaux Jazz Festival, where she shared the stage with Herbie Hancock. After this experience, Zanna tried to return to Brazil with her music and her album with the Eletrons, released in 2003, but that attempt was not successful. This provided one more reason for her to go back on the road with a new destination, New York City, for five more years of experiences, studies and work; this time, digging deeper into the arts, production, and studio techniques, including the creation of soundtracks for environments. The composer and producer Zanna, head of Zanna Sound, was then born, introducing the concept of musical branding in Brazil and in Latin America in general. This was a pioneering activity which was immediately a success. You can find part of this story by Googling “Zanna Sound”. The results will include, as her flagship, the voice and sounds of subway stations and trains in Rio de Janeiro. So familiar to the people in Rio and tourists passing through the city, but until now anonymous, the voice of the subway shows her musical face. A new album was released in 2017, produced by Moogie Canazio and arranged by Eduardo Souto Neto, having received 3 nominations for the Latin Grammy.

Instruments

• Vocals
• Acoustic guitar
• Guitar

Genres

• Jazz
• Latin
• Pop

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