| Bebel Gilberto At the age of seven, Bebel made an appearance on her Mother's first solo album Miucha. At age nine, Bebel performed with her mother and legendary Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz at a Jazz festival in New York's Carnegie Hall . Back in Brazil Bebel performed and recorded in the soundtrack of the children's musical Os Saltimbancos written by Sergio Bardotti and Chico Buarque which created a major impact. Later on Bebel joined an experimental theatrical group and was a member of the founding team of the performance space Circo Voador (Flying Circus) at Ipanema Beach. At this time Bebel started to write songs with collaborators such as De and Cazuza, co-writting Preciso Dizer Que Te Amo, which became a national hit winning several music awards. Bebel's first solo album was the 1986 EP Bebel Gilberto for Warner Music. In 1991 Bebel moved to New York where she performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in a special tribute to Brazilian star Carmen Miranda directed by Arto Lindsay also featuring Nana Vasconcelos and Laurie Anderson. Bebel soon started performing in NY with her own band. In the late 1990s Bebel moved to London and where she began to develop the sound featured on her critically acclaimed debut album Tanto Tempo. In 2006, Bebel started writing and producing the songs that would become part of her third album Momento. Bebel is single and still resides in New York City where her band is based.
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