Sara Serpa

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Sara Serpa
Born Lisbon, Portugal
Genres Jazz, vocal jazz
OccupationVocalist
Labels Clean Feed, Sunnyside
Website Official site

Sara Serpa is a jazz vocalist from Lisbon, Portugal.

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Career

For ten years Serpa studied classical piano and vocals, then studied jazz at the Lisbon Conservatory. After moving to Boston, she attended the Berklee College of Music. [1] [2] [3] She recorded her debut album Praia (Inner Circle Music, 2008) the same year she received a master's degree from the New England Conservatory. [1] Her teachers included Danilo Pérez, Dominique Eade, and Ran Blake. [1] Two years later she recorded Camera Obscura with her mentor Blake. [1] Early in her career she performed with Greg Osby at the Vanguard in New York City. [1] She sang on Osby's album 9 Levels. [4] In the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll of 2019, she was voted the number one Rising Star among female vocalists. [5] DownBeat named Intimate Strangers one of the top albums of 2022. [6]

Among the influences and musicians she admires, she has named Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Maria João, Billie Holiday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Wayne Shorter, Bjork, Hermeto Pascoal, Theo Bleckmann, Brad Mehldau, and Bill Evans. [1]

Discography

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References

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