2008 – Accomplishes the larger Jazz Tour (20 venues all over the country),
with Convexo [a música de Zeca Afonso]
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– Performs an outstanding duo concert with the acclaimed pianist Gonzalo
Rubalcaba, at Lisbon’s Casino
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– Again, Jacinta reaches a sales score in Portuguese Jazz. With Convexo, Jacinta sells 18 thousand
copies
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2007 –
Starts her own Management Agency
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– Nominated as “Europe’s Best Young Jazz Artist”, by the 20 editors of Reader’s Digest magazine
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– Produces and releases her third record Convexo [a música de Zeca Afonso], edited by HM Musica
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2006 – Performs for seven nights at the Winter Garden of the S. Luiz
Theatre, with her new project Jacinta
sings Brazil (always sold out)
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– Releases Day Dream (Blue
Note/EMI label). Tours around the country, in dozens of venues, from October 4
to December 2
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2005 – Preview of her new album Day Dream, with Greg Osby’s quartet, pursuing a more complex,
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audacious mainstream jazz
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2003 – Becomes the first Portuguese artist to record for Blue Note label. Tribute to Bessie Smith is the first
jazz record to attain Gold, obtaining the 7th place in the national
sales rank
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– .. -->[endif]-->Sings Thelonious Monk with jazz quartet and orchestras, namely a season
with Lisbon’s Metropolitan Orchestra
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2001 – Distinguished as the “Revelation Musician of the Year” and “The Jazz
Singer”, by José Duarte, in the radio show Cinco
Minutos de Jazz (Antena 1)
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1997 – Moves to New York to pursue jazz studies, enrolling at the Manhattan
School of Music and she’s awarded a scholarship to complete her Jazz Vocal
studies as Master of Arts
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1993 – Wins several stages of a TV musical contest, making an impersonation of
Ella Fitzgerald singing Summertime
and Night and Day
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1992 – A true interest in jazz music starts growing, leading her to attend
several jazz master classes around the country (piano and vocal techniques)
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1991 – Sings and composes in her Symphonic Rock band, called Doce Caos (Sweet Chaos)
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1990 – Initiates her Degree in Music (Classical Music Composition) at Aveiro’s
University
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1989 – Performs solo, singing and playing her guitar in clubs (themes from The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Sérgio
Godinho, Rui Veloso,…)
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1983 – At the age of 12, studies at the Musical Conservatory
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1982 – First public performance, singing in vocal duet with her sister, with
only 11 years old
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1975 – Starts her musical studies (Orff and Suzuki methods), at the age of 4
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1971
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Jacinta is born in Gafanha da Nazaré, Aveiro (Portugal), May 26
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