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DATE
1 MAY 2010, SAT
TIME
7.30pm
(120mins, no intermission)
(120mins, no intermission)
VENUE
Concert Hall
PRICE
$68, $88, $118, $148, $168
SYNOPSIS
'Queen of bossa nova' – China Daily
Lisa Ono (小野リサ, Ono Lisa) is a popular Japanese bossa nova singer. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10. From that time on she spent half of every year in Japan, and half in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lisa Ono is a singer-songwriter who plays the guitar. Her first album, Catupiry, was released in 1989. She hasn't stopped recording since then, releasing one disc a year, mostly in Portuguese. In 1991 her album Nanã won the Grand Prix Gold Disk Award for Jazz in Japan. Her third album Menina was recorded in Rio, and won the same Grand Prix award. In 2003 she released an album entitled Dans Mon Île (French for "In my island"), themed around a voyage to France and based on famous French songs. Lisa has performed with Tom Jobim and with João Donato in Brazil, in addition to other performances around the world.
Lisa Ono (小野リサ, Ono Lisa) is a popular Japanese bossa nova singer. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10. From that time on she spent half of every year in Japan, and half in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lisa Ono is a singer-songwriter who plays the guitar. Her first album, Catupiry, was released in 1989. She hasn't stopped recording since then, releasing one disc a year, mostly in Portuguese. In 1991 her album Nanã won the Grand Prix Gold Disk Award for Jazz in Japan. Her third album Menina was recorded in Rio, and won the same Grand Prix award. In 2003 she released an album entitled Dans Mon Île (French for "In my island"), themed around a voyage to France and based on famous French songs. Lisa has performed with Tom Jobim and with João Donato in Brazil, in addition to other performances around the world.
Appearances in Japan include concerts at the Blue Note Tokyo with Paulo and Daniel Jobim, Toninho Horta, and Emílio Santiago. In Lisa Ono "Live in Singapore" 2010, Lisa will perform songs from around the world with the theme of 'music journey' and all worked into bossa nova arrangements. In addition, the concert will also feature songs from her latest album (released in Feb 2010) with an Asian theme and she will also perform familiar tunes in the local languages here.
Songs sung in English and Portuguese
