ELISA RODRIGUES – ATÉ AO SOL – com LUÍS FIGUEIREDO | ELISA RODRIGUES – UNTIL THE SUN – with LUÍS FIGUEIREDO

At the age of three, she told her mother that she wanted to be a singer. She sang non-stop until she was enrolled in the Estoril International Music School to learn how to sing in a Gregorian choir. That’s how she began, at the age of eight, to give concerts in the most distinguished venues in the country.
She graduated in Fashion Design but ended up becoming a professional singer when, at the age of 24, she was invited by Júlio Resende to record her first album. This album sold out in four months and earned her the title of best Portuguese jazz singer of the last 30 years, according to critics and peers.
Two years later, she began working with Rodrigo Leão, a project that she ended up having to abandon in order to fulfill an international schedule with the British indie rock band These New Puritans, with whom she was a member for four years and with whom she recorded three albums.
She has recorded two albums in her own right, travelled and sung throughout Portugal and internationally, with special emphasis on Egypt, where she has toured several times, Namibia, South Africa and Ireland. She has collaborated with some of the most talented national singers and musicians, including Mário Laginha, Mário Delgado, António Zambujo, Pedro Abrunhosa, Ana Bacalhau, Luísa Sobral, Joana Alegre, Joana Espadinha, Rodrigo Leão and Carolina Deslandes.
As a composer, she was also a finalist and performer at the Festival da C
In September, she released her most recent work, the EP “Até ao Sol”, produced by Luís Figueiredo. It mixes her jazz/bossa nova references with her own way of transforming them into a distinctive pop.
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Luís Figueiredo is a pianist, composer, arranger and music producer. Born in Coimbra in 1979. He studied piano at the Coimbra Conservatory of Music and later at the University of Aveiro and at the Hot Clube de Portugal, in Lisbon. He studied with Vitali Dotsenko, Mário Laginha, António Chagas Rosa and Filipe Melo, among others.
He released his first album as a leader in 2010 (Manhã, JACC Records). In 2024, he released Anima (Roda Music), a suite for string orchestra and soloists. In the meantime, he has worked with the likes of Cristina Branco, Bruno Pedroso, Carlos Bica, André Fernandes, Luisa Sobral, Alexandre Frazão, Reinier Baas, João Moreira, Martin Sued, Ana Bacalhau, Demian Cabaud, Mario Delgado, Bernardo Moreira, David Binney, Julian Argüelles, João Hasselberg, Perico Sambeat, Marcos Cavaleiro, Eivind Aarset, Mario Laginha, Ricardo Toscano, Eduardo Raon, Rita Maria, Diogo Duque, João Gil, António Zambujo, Mario Franco, Carlos Barretto, Jaques Morelenbaum, Jorge Moniz, Gisela João and Jeffery Davis, among many others. He has worked with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Beiras, the Classical Orchestra of the Centre, the Classical Orchestra of the South, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Orchestra XXI, the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra, the Estarreja Jazz Orchestra, the Hr Frankfurt Rundfunk Big Band (DE), the Gelders Orchestra (NL) and the Orchestre National de Bretagne (FR), the Coimbra Vocal Choir, the Academic Orchestra of Coimbra, as well as several chamber music ensembles. He has worked with conductors Cesário Costa, António Vassalo Lourenço, Pedro Neves, Rui Pinheiro, Jamie Philips, Fiona Monbet, Jan Wierzba, Sérgio Alapont and Dinis Sousa. He was the arranger of the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, “Amar Pelos Dois”, and was also the composer of the original soundtrack for the 2018 edition of the same festival. In addition to his work as a leader, he also regularly collaborates on projects such as Kintsugi (with João Mortágua), Songbird (with João Hasselberg), Text of Sound (with Eduardo Raon, João Hasselberg and Pedro Melo Alves), Cristina Branco (with Bernardo Couto and Bernardo Moreira), among others. With Rita Maria and Mário Franco, he is the co-founder of Roda Music, a record label dedicated to jazz, improvised music and classical music of the 21st century. Luís Figueiredo holds a PhD in Music from the University of Aveiro, where he worked until 2019 as a Guest Assistant Professor for the area of ​​jazz.

ELISA RODRIGUES – ATÉ AO SOL – com LUÍS FIGUEIREDO