From Brazil, Eliane Elias

Grammy- and Latin Grammy-winning pianist/singer/composer/arranger Eliane Elias has a distinctive musical style that’s considered one of the most unique and immediately recognizable sounds in jazz and Brazilian music. She blends her Brazilian roots and alluring voice with her virtuosic instrumental jazz, her classical and compositional skills, while she consistently displays her pianistic mastery and ability to integrate the many artistic roles she tackles.

Her album “Mirror Mirror” (2021) won the Grammy Award and the Latin Grammy Award for best Latin jazz album in 2022. Her album “Quietude” (2022) debuted as No. 1 on Billboard, iTunes and Amazon jazz charts and received a Libera Award Nomination for best Latin record in 2023.

“Mirror Mirror” is an extraordinary piano duet recording of Elias with the late, legendary jazz great Chick Corea and famed Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés. While her highly successful recordings have predominantly featured her alluring voice and piano mastery, the piano has always been her first love; working with these two jazz icons presented a rare opportunity to record in a two-piano setting — something she hasn’t done in many years, since her piano duet recordings with Herbie Hancock.

With 31 albums and more than 2.4 million albums sold to date, Eliane Elias has toured across 74 countries. She is a four-time Gold Disc Award recipient, a three-time best vocal album winner in Japan and winner of the 2018 Edison Lifetime Achievement Award in Holland, to name a few accolades

Her 2019 and 2021 albums (“Love Stories” and “Mirror Mirror”) were both voted DownBeat’s “Best Album of the Year — Masterpiece”; as with most of her previous releases, her recordings hit No. 1 on the jazz charts worldwide. Elias has been nominated 10 times by the Grammys and Latin Grammys.

Eliane Elias will appear with her band in an SCP Jazz concert on May 9.