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Luciana Souza (1966, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who has crossed over into classical music.

Daughter of poet Tereza Souza and singer-composer-guitarist Walter Santos, she grew up in São Paulo. She is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston from which she received a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Composition in 1988. She then received a Master's degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1994. She has taught at Berklee College of Music in Boston and at The Manhattan School of Music, in New York.

She began her career at the age of three by recording jingles for commercials. She has also worked in the field of European classical music, working with the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, composer Osvaldo Golijov, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. She has worked with New Music composers Derek Bermel and Patrick Zimmerli. She has worked in chamber music with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the American Composer's Orchestra. Souza was Jazz Artist in Residence with San Francisco Performances from 2004 to 2010.

Luciana Souza has been nominated six times for a Grammy Award in the categories of Best Jazz Vocal Album (five times) and Best Latin Jazz Album (one time) in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2010 and twice in 2013. She has appeared and recorded with both renowned jazz musicians and composers of new music, including Danilo Perez, Hermeto Pascoal, Romero Lubambo, Maria Schneider, Kenny Werner, John Patitucci, Herbie Hancock, and Osvaldo Golijov. Luciana Souza has worked and recorded with Paul Simon and James Taylor.


Luciana Souza - An Answer To Your Silence - 1998
Luciana Souza - Brazilian Duos - 2001
Luciana Souza - Duos II - 2005
Luciana Souza - Duos III - 2012
Luciana Souza - Neruda - 2004
Luciana Souza - Norte e Sul (North and South) - 2003
Luciana Souza - Speaking In Tongues - 2015
Luciana Souza - The Book of Chet - 2012
Luciana Souza - The New Bossa Nova - 2007
Luciana Souza - The Poems Of Elizabeth Bishop And Other Songs - 2000
Luciana Souza - Tide - 2009