Dilene Ferraz

Brazilian singer and performer. She started singing at the age of 9. At the age of 14 she recorded her first album for the brazilian label “Copacabana” which immediately entered the hit parade and led her touring throughout Brazil. In 1986 she moved to Italy to begin musical studies at the International Academy of Music in Milan. She improved singing with the masters Mariella Farina, Shuko Takahashi and Luisa Castellani. In 1993 she made her first Italian recording for Best Sound & Flying Records with the group Caraiva, which she led until 1995. In the same year, she started the project Brazilian Love Affair and she recorded 4 CDs for DIG IT International. Later she gave life to the "Dilene Ferraz Group" project, a brazilian jazz quintet, and partnered in duo with Sergio Fabian Lavia, with whom she recorded the CDs "De Argentina ao Brasil" and "Amando".