My Music.
With three released albums to date, plus a live EP and a new one coming up, my discography reflects my artistic growth. Each album has its own context but they all share the same approach: they are all independent productions, done entirely on my own terms — no record label, no strings attached. It has taken time. I’ve learned. I’ve changed. I’ve matured.
the unfolding of my music journey.
I have been writing songs ever since I can remember. When I got my first guitar at nine, I knew that music and writing were always going to be part of my life — faithful companions that would travel with me wherever I went.
My first studio recordings date back to 1993 when I submitted three singles to EMI Italy in Milan. The A&R Executive said there was something interesting about my style and asked me to come back with more songs. I never did. Instead, in 1995 I started my corporate career in Switzerland — and that changed everything.
Over the next two decades I kept writing, kept recording, kept dreaming — across Portugal, Switzerland, New York — always on my own terms, always self-financed. In 2004 I released my first concept album, The Sounds of Freedom, followed by The Midnight Sun in 2011. Both were labours of love that took five years each to complete.
Between 2008 and 2011 I sang in a corporate cover band called Overtime — we played Queen, Guns & Roses, and rocked it! That experience finally got me out of my shell. In 2013 I held my first solo unplugged concert, Portraits, at the Lido in Lausanne. From there the live performances kept coming — including two fundraising concerts for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day, last one in December 2021, which was captured and released as a live EP, Wish Upon a Dream.
In 2021 I released my EP A Woman With A Soul — five songs, five stories, five sounds. And I’m now getting ready for the next chapter!
Timeline of projects
2021
It’s been a long time in the making but here it is, my new EP, A Woman With A Soul. Five songs including the single HERE WE ARE make up this new creative work. Although each song has its own story and sound, they are connected by the intimacy of the lyrics and the diversity of the topics!
FEATURED VIDEOS
1929- A Woman With A Soul
A tribute to our past.
It’s a tribute to those women who have come before us and have made history thanks to their voices and actions. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room Of One’s Own, published in 1929, the song invites all women to fly on the wings of freedom.
For more about the making of the video, check out the special In-Between Season Episode of my podcast, The World of Work, the WoW, THE MAKING OF “1929 – A WOMAN WITH A SOUL” MUSIC VIDEO.
7 Minutes
A story of hope.
7 Minutes can change someone’s life; from 7 Minutes of brutal violence they can become a gateway to freedom. It’s not easy but it is possible. Dedicated to all those women who are victims of domestic violence. Walk on. Walk on. To Freedom.
HERE WE ARE!
The Story Behind the Song and the Video.
HERE WE ARE is a statement more than a song and the video and picture are a testimony of that statement! It was a liberating moment to finally be able to publish the song after what has been a very complicated 18 months of gestation due to the restrictions imposed by the outburst of the pandemic. To celebrate the moment I created a small community project beginning of the year and asked my friends and fans to dance with me virtually and take part of the video! What a FUN and truly AMAZING experience that was!
2011
features the Book of Illusions with illustrations from Antonio Carlos Soares
My 2nd album concept which to a great extent can be seen as the sequel to the first one, the Sounds of Freedom. From the magic world of dreams, children and lightheartedness, we enter the dark world of illusions and delusions, the dangerous flip side of what dreams and beliefs can become when they are imposed on others and transformed into obsessive and divisive dogmas.
The story is about a war torn community that was initially united around the same religious beliefs but that grew apart due to divisive internal factions that fight over the supremacy of their ideas and cults . In this dramatic scenario a young woman and man fall in love but they belong to the opposing sides. How can they fight a war which is not theirs? Can love truly unite as opposed to divide? They will need to find out by putting their own lives and love at stake!
2004
features the Book of Dreams with illustrations from Antonio Carlos Soares
This is my 1st album concept conceived in 1999 that took over 5 years to develop and produce! It is a mix of a fairytale and a wake up call to keep the child within us alive and well, nurture the imagination and pursue our dreams. It’s a story about a “little lonesome girl who longed to change the world with a dream in her heart and a song in her soul” and her friendship with a “sad boy” who lost his dreams on trees! Through their adventures they are able to prove to the world that dreams do exist and that they are more powerful than what we dare ourselves to believe. But not everyone sees it the same way!
The album in the meantime has turned into a theatrical work called Wish Upon A Dream . Some songs were performed live in December 2021!
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