Julia Mestre | |
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Born | 1996or1997(age 28–29) [1] Rio de Janeiro |
Years active | 2017–present |
Julia Mestre is a Brazilian musician and singer-songwriter. She is a member of the band Bala Desejo and has released three albums as a solo artist.
Mestre was born in Rio de Janeiro. [2] Before making music she acted, and appeared in the 2014 film Confissões de Adolescente . [3]
Mestre's first EP Desencanto was released in 2017. [3] Her debut album Geminis was released in 2019, and she performed it at the Centro Cultural Solar de Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro in June of that year. [4]
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Mestre formed the band Bala Desejo with Dora Morelenbaum, Lucas Nunes, and Zé Ibarra, with whom she released an album and toured in Europe. [3] [5] She released her second solo album Arrepiada in 2023. [3]
In 2025 Mestre released her third album Maravilhosamente Bem on Mr Bongo Records. Mojo described the album as "a modern twist on 1980s MPB (música popular Brasileira)". [2] In a review for Songlines , Justin Turford wrote that "Mestre's voice is a sultry, bewitching instrument and the album is impressively produced but I can't help but find the music to be a bit too derivative." [6]