2007, Luisa Maita exposed her composition capacity, having then two of her sambas recorded by the Brazilian singer Virgínia Rosa. The fact soon called attention of some of the main Brazilian critics.

Now, in 2008, she launches her solo work as a singer, introducing her graceful voice, with intelligent lyrics that reflect a contemporary universe. Thus, Luísa goes beyond the samba and the MPB, looking for some different esthetic for the pop in Brazilian music. As daughter of Amado Maita, musician and composer who had his only album considered the "holy grail" among collectors in Europe and Japan, she was directly in contact with samba jazz and the musician field since her childhood. She lived surrounded by great and important musicians who have made history within Brazilian music and also in foreign countries, such as Lenine, Naná Vasconcelos, Sizao Machado, Fernando Falcao, Dominguinhos, Suzano, Mônica Salmaso, Proveta, Rafael Rabelo, Paulinho da Viola, Guilherme Vergueiro, among many others.

At the age of seventeen, Luisa turned the habit she had had since she was a child into a profession, and began her career as a singer. In these first years, she experienced the tradit... (+) expand

2007, Luisa Maita exposed her composition capacity, having then two of her sambas recorded by the Brazilian singer Virgínia Rosa. The fact soon called attention of some of the main Brazilian critics.

Now, in 2008, she launches her solo work as a singer, introducing her graceful voice, with intelligent lyrics that reflect a contemporary universe. Thus, Luísa goes beyond the samba and the MPB, looking for some different esthetic for the pop in Brazilian music. As daughter of Amado Maita, musician and composer who had his only album considered the "holy grail" among collectors in Europe and Japan, she was directly in contact with samba jazz and the musician field since her childhood. She lived surrounded by great and important musicians who have made history within Brazilian music and also in foreign countries, such as Lenine, Naná Vasconcelos, Sizao Machado, Fernando Falcao, Dominguinhos, Suzano, Mônica Salmaso, Proveta, Rafael Rabelo, Paulinho da Viola, Guilherme Vergueiro, among many others.

At the age of seventeen, Luisa turned the habit she had had since she was a child into a profession, and began her career as a singer. In these first years, she experienced the traditional Brazilian Music, in samba circles, singing the songs of the most influent Brazilian composers and getting to know the various movements of regional culture of the country. She studied lyrical singing and took part in professional choirs, and also in the Sao Paulo University Choir. Later, in 2001, she constituted the group which brought her the greatest experience as an artist: the Urbanda group, with five participants, all of them musicians and composers.

At that occasion, Luisa was starting the search for a kind of musical language that could be authentic and communicative at the same time. The group launched their first album in 2003. With this group, she performed shows at many different places, and experienced the stage, tours and anything else one is able to learn in four years of production on the road.

The new solo work of Luísa Maita, intended to be launched in the second semester of this year, is permeated by Rodrigo de Campos' modern guitar arrangements, clearly identified with the instrument Afro-Brazilian traditions, the electric bass and the musical production of Paulo Lepetit (important musician in the paulistana vanguard movement), feeding the pop sonority with his traditions, with electrical music and even subtly with the strong beats of the carioca funk. (-) collapse