8/9/2024 – 20:30h. Red Carpet, Palma de Mallorca

4/10/2024 – 21:00h. Plaza del Adelantado, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife. (Free admission until full capacity is reached)

Fabiana Cozza is a black-mestizo singer, teacher, researcher and poet who loves to cook.

She was born on a Friday night in São Paulo in 1976. From a young age, she fell in love with samba under the influence of her father, Oswaldo dos Santos, a former samba singer at the Camisa Verde e Branco school, located in one of the neighbourhoods considered to be the cradle of samba in São Paulo, Barra Funda. She grew up around music circles in the backyard of her maternal grandmother Amélia’s house in the Vila Madalena neighbourhood, visits to the Camisa Verde court, gatherings of cousins with guitars and accordions in the interior of São Paulo, the liturgical chants of the Catholic Church, popular festivities and their repertoires for June, congado songs, songs of the kings, listening to albums by the greats of Brazilian music and especially American jazz.

A lover of Alcione, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Emilio Santiago, Elizeth Cardoso, Milton Nascimento, Leny Andrade and many others, Cozza approached the arts in an objective and more intense way at the age of 19 when she entered the Tom Jobim Free University of Music, now EMESP, beginning her studies and also awakening her interest in theatre, dance and vocal practice. Her first professional contact was with the singer Jane Duboc from Pará, with whom she worked for a year in the vocal group NovElla (1996/1997).

In performance and theatre, she has had directors and actors Elias Andreato and Linda Wise (Pantheatre de Paris) as her main mentors. Between 2000-2010 she worked with leading Brazilian theatre personalities such as Gero Camilo, Iacov Hillel, Marcos Faustini, Heron Coelho, and also studied movement and body practices with Jorge Balbyns, JC Violla, Irineu Nogueira and Monica Monteiro.

She studied with several important singing teachers: Tuca Fernandes, Sira Milani, Maúde Salazar, Felipe Abreu, Davide Rocca, Vania Pajares, Linda Wise, as well as with speech therapist Dr Marta de Assumpção de Andrada e Silva.

In 1999, the first opportunity arose to record her voice as a soloist. The invitation came from São Paulo composer Eduardo Gudin, with whom Cozza worked as part of the second line-up of the vocal group Notícias dum Brasil, recording the album Pra tirar o chapéu.

Her artistic path was also paved in the musicals she performed in: Os Lusíadas directed by Iacov Hillel and Magda Pucci; A luta secreta de Maria da Encarnação, the last play written by Gianfrancesco Guarnieri with musical direction by Renato Teixeira and Nathan Marques; O Canto da Guerreira – 20 years without Clara Nunes; Ary Barroso; Rainha Quelé – a tribute to Clementina de Jesus, directed by Heron Coelho. She was directed by actor and director Gero Camilo in Razão Social (2016) and by Luiz Fernando Lobo in Canto Negro (2019). Since 2015, her personal projects have been supervised by actor Elias Andreato, with highlights including Ay, Amor! (Theatre song for Bola de Nieve – 2015 and 2018 – DVD made in Havana, Cuba) and Canto da noite na boca do vento (Songs by Ivone Lara and partners – 2019).

In 2023, Cozza completed 25 years of her career, celebrating 9 albums, three DVDs, the book of poems Álbum Duplo (Pedra, Papel, Tesoura), two Brazilian Music Award titles (2013 – Best Samba Singer; 2018 – Best Foreign Language Album for Ay, amor!), the release of the album Urucungo in honour of Nei Lopes and a career that includes artistic projects, collaborations and partnerships that she is proud of. Among them, he highlights his encounters with artists – musicians, composers, arrangers, conductors, writers, Brazilian and foreign singers – who have expanded and directly influenced his artistic performance, thoughts and perceptions: Zimbo Trio, Omara Portuondo (Cuba), Emicida, Marcelino Freire, Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica Brasil, Nei Lopes, Dona Ivone Lara, Roque Ferreira, Olivia Araújo, Zelia Duncan, Wilson das Neves, Paulo Cesar Pinheiro, Sadao Watanabe (Japan), Pepe Cisneros (Cuba), Wilson Moreira, Virgínia Rodrigues, Tiganá Santana, Paulão 7 Cordas, Samba da Vela, Áurea Martins, Monica Salmaso, Swami Jr. , Julio Padrón (Cuba), Paul Winter (USA), Eugène Friesen (USA), Luizinho 7 Cordas, Zé Barbeiro, Hr Big Band (Frankfurt), Arismar do Espírito Santo, Gilson Peranzzetta, Leny Andrade, Rappin Hood, Sergio Pererê, Mauricio Tizumba, Titane, Guinga, Henrique Araújo, Douglas Alonso, Fi Maróstica, Patrícia Bastos, Yaniel Matos (Cuba), Marina Íris, Vanessa Moreno, Germano Mathias, Salloma Salomão, Fabio Torres, Balada Literária, Mú Mbana (Guiné Bissau), Alessandro Penezzi, Tulio Mourão and others.

Fabiana Cozza has a degree in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) and worked as a journalist for eight years in different media.

In 2017, she resumed her academic studies at PUC-SP, earning a master’s degree in Speech and Hearing Therapy (2019). She is currently a PhD student at the Unicamp Institute of Arts with a research project relating the voice and the drum in technical work with singers.