Mel Freire Music

er field, as well as to the production of events. In Rome, she studied vocal technique and jazz improvisation, performance, music theory and music education. In Belo Horizonte, she deepened her studies in vocal technique, interpretation and percussion. Mel Freire has been performing in public since the 1990s, taking part in groups from different backgrounds, focusing on brazilian rhythms such as baião, samba, choro, bossa nova and maracatu, beyond jazz. Her work on the guitar and voice duo with Italian guitarist Giulia Salsone, focusing on the language of MPB, choro and samba, took part in the 6th Festival Roma-Napoli-Rio (Italy) and in the Iniscealtra Festival of Arts (Ireland). Melissa is also experienced in producing events: tour production assistant for the Italian band Acustimantico in Japan, Germany, Belgium, France and regions of Italy (2006 and 2007). She produced the tour of the Brazilian folk dance group Sarandeiros and she was the producer of the musicians Tatá Sympa and Carlinhos Patriolino, in Milan and Sicily (2007). In the Brazilian sphere, Mel Freire has been presenting since 2008, when she started her project in duo with Brazilian guitarist Luis Bisaggio. The repertoire, based on MPB, samba and bossa nova, earned its participation in the Clara Nunes Festival (Caetanópolis - MG, 2008 and 2010), tour of Italy (2010), and an invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to act in the cultural project school of Music / Vinicius de Moraes Centennial in Sao Tome and Principe, Africa, in 2013 - when they recorded Omali Aflika, an original song with lyrics in Santomean creole (see YouTube link). The duo also recorded the CD Mel Freire and Luís Bisaggio in 2010. Mel Freire is one of the winner voices in the contest ‘Singers from Here’ BDMG 2009 (Belo Horizonte) and a finalist in the 2nd Music Prize in 2013 in Minas Gerais, with a samba from her own composition Vou me mudar (I'm moving), which integrates the recently released CD of the event. Featured up is her recent presentations in 2014, at the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo, during the ‘Without Borders Festival’ and the project “Coffee with Music” at the Palace of Arts in Belo Horizonte.