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Teresa Gabriel is a singer, song writer, guitarist, composer, healer.

With a voice that can be epic or delicate, an inventive, percussive and original guitar style, she plays folk with ethnic and mystical textures, songs which are prayers for healing and vision, drinking inspiration from Sufi poetry, shamanism, and travelling the world, with a nomadic and troubadour spirit.

Teresa Gabriel's musical path started at a very young age.

She started to write songs as soon as she started to learn guitar at the age of 9, and piano at 12. In her early teens she played in rock bands as a guitarist and in celtic bands as a percussionist.

When she was 15 she started to play her own songs in competitions throughout the country, inspired by a growing love for folk music and singer-songwriters, mainly Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Kristin Hersch, Jane Siberry, Jewel and Paula Cole.

She was classicaly trained in voice at the same time she was studying Philosophy and Journalism in University, whaving some experiences in theater as well, as a writer and actress, and started practising and studying YOGA, Reiki and energy healing, and shamanic healing.

In 2001, at only 18, her song "Dream Sister" was included in a national compilation for new talent, "OPTIMUS 2001", alongside such now big names in Portugal, like Terrakota and Toranja.

This opened the doors to play the FNAC circuit, small theaters, and the biggest festivals (Vilar de Mouros 2001, Sudoeste 2002), culminating in her opening for Portishead's Beth Gibbons in the coliseums of Lisbon and Porto, for 3000 people with great reviews and feedback, in April 2003.

In 2003 and 2004 she travelled around Portugal, and spent some time in Coimbra and Porto, expanding horizons, and also playing in small clubs and theaters with different formations of of musicians (sometimes violin, cello, guitar and bass, others just a percussionist) and busking from time to time, but it was time to go further.

In 2005 and 2006 she embarked on a sort of "musical pilgrimage", and she became nomadic for two years, falling in love with the magic of Barcelona and it's bubbling and spontaneous artistic scene, and discovering the immense acoustic circuit of London.

She also became fascinated with world music, especially Bulgarian choirs and Indian music, and started to collaborated with the Hinduistanic duo of sitar and tablas ALAP, recording the vocal track on their debut album "Thar". They played in Belem Cultural Centre is Lisbon, in the Andanças Festival 2005 and Colombo Festival 2005 in the island of Madeira.

She also collaborated with Olive Tree (drums and didgeridoo project), Orchid Star (having played with them in the Kingston Green Fair and in The Sunrise Celebration in 2006), and Jamie Woon.

2006 was a great year with lots of expansion and creativity, with a reborn sence of freedom, discovering new music and new cultures, playing in alternative spaces in Portugal like Contagiarte and 555, the huge BOOM festival, the Vagos acoustic festival and Andanças festival.

Teresa also explored the surrealism of Mexico and the mystical music of Turkey - she attended the Mevlana festival, researching Sufi music and Rumi's poetry.

The final part of 2006 and beggining of 2007 was filled with gigs in England (The Synergy Project, The Ginglik, The Vibe Bar, The Joogleberry Playhouse in Brighton, Rubicon, Green Note, The winelight club in Norwich, Cargo, The comedy pub, Guerrilla Zoo performance space, Sunday Sounds, Vortex, Ramjam in Kingston, Small World stage @ the 491 gallery).

The feedback from people has been very good, praising Teresa's heart-felt poetic lyrics, her beautiful-spine-tingly-powerful voice, and her very original guitar style ( folk? funk? flamenco? rock?) - sometimes percussive, sometimes developing into rich and unusual goosebumpy inventive harmonic progressions like a small orchestra of its own.

Teresa played a track with Terrakota in the release of their album in Aula Magna in May 2007 , collaborated with Ruben Branco from OCO in the musical-performance MYTHOFACTA, played in CREW HASSAN, MUSIC BOX and MAXIME, CONTAGIARTE, PROJECTO SINERGIA, CABARET EVOÉ.

Is also collaborating with AMBIENS INDAGES, a chill out project which has played in AVIS a RASGAR 2007, FREEDOM festival 2007, BOOM festival 2008, and the Synergy Project in 2006, .

in 2008, Teresa started doing HEALING THROUGH SINGING workshops, a more therapeutic, catharthic, playful and instinctive aproach to music, (in which people tap into their own essence, using the delicate alchemy of the ancestral medicine of music to cleanse emotions and mend inner wounds to re-connect with personal power and creatitivity, using group energy dynamics to create architectures of harmonies and let the sacred power of sound purify), and SOUND HEALING JOURNEYS with tibetan bowls and voice with Lobsang Dorje.

Teresa also collaborated with AMALGAMA, a dance group greatly influenced by butoh, sufism, mysticism and spirituality, composing some music.

Teresa also organizes and produces arts events in Lisbon (synergic nights). with Gil Nazaré. If you paint, dance, perform, sing, heal or talk, send a message.

These events celebrate the return of Ancestral wisdom and Collective Consciousness to restore the Balance in a mentally distorted and greedy western world, with the intention to create webs of Ethic Cooperations for a Collective Higher Good to create alternatives to standart ways of living and mental programs, bringing healing, social and ancestral education, and celebration of difference and visions that can be grounded to create new structures, more sustainable and healthy. We support real and deep healing based on personal consciousness transformation instead of "legal" drug addictions to the greedy pharmaceutic industry, animal rights and vegetarian foods, saving and re-utilizing water as much as possible as our most valuable asset for survival on this planet, and inspiring artists that awaken and show wider perspectives and horizons and enrich perceptions.

She also does AYURVEDIC MASSAGE.

To hear collaborations with other projects go to these links:

www.myspace.com/ambiens "Full Moon"

www.myspace.com/spiritualhitek "Forbidden Love"

www.myspace.com/alapmusic "O luar sobre o trilho"

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