Maria João (singer)
Maria João Monteiro Grancha is a Portuguese jazz singer. She is known for her vocal flexibility and improvisational skills. Although considered a jazz singer, she incorporates folk music, avant-garde, and electronica.
Her main musical partner is Portuguese pianist Mário Laginha. She has also worked with Aki Takase, Bobby McFerrin, David Linx, Dino Saluzzi, Gilberto Gil, Joe Zawinul, Kai Eckhardt, Lenine, Manu Katche, Ralph Towner, Trilok Gurtu, Wolfgang Muthspiel, and .
She was invited by RTP to compose an entry for Festival da Canção 2024, the Portuguese selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024; she performed the song "Dia" in the second semi-final on 2 March 2024, failing to qualify for the final.
Discography
Quinteto Maria João, with Mário LaginhaCem Caminhos with Maria João Quintet Conversa with Maria João Quintet Looking for Love with Aki Takase Sol with Grupo Cal Viva Alice with Aki Takase and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Danças with Mário Laginha Fábula, with Dino Saluzzi, Ralph Towner, Manu Katché a.o.Cor with Mário Laginha, Trilok Gurtu and Wolfgang Muthspiel Lobos, Raposas e Coiotes with Mário Laginha and NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hannover and Arild Remmereit Chorinho Feliz with Mário Laginha Mumadji with Mário Laginha, Toninho Ferragutti and Helge Norbakken as Mumadji Undercovers with Mário Laginha Tralha Pele with José Peixoto João, also released with additional DVDChocolate Follow the Songlines with David Linx, Diederik Wissels, Mário Laginha Amoras e Framboesas A Different Porgy & Another Bess Electrodoméstico Iridescente Plástico with Ogre Mar Afora with Guinga Studio Konzert with Ogre A Poesia de Aldir Blanc The Blues Experience with Budda Power Blues Agora Muda Tudo with Nuno Côrte-Real, José Luís Peixoto, Ensemble Darcos Open Your Mouth with Ogre ElectricCompilations
Pensa Nisto! – Fidjo MagoadoEtnocity/Underground Sound of Lisbon – Saris e Capolanas Movimentos Perpétuos – Mãos na ParedeAs featured vocalist
ABBAcadabra- Júlio Pereira
- LX-90 – Uma Revolução Por Minuto/One Revolution Per Minute
- NDR Bigband – Bravissimo II - 50 Years with João on one track recorded 1993
- Júlio Pereira – Tarde Quente
- Laurent Filipe – Ad lib Vol. 1 Bom dia Benjamim, children's musical audiobook
- António Pinho Vargas with Maria João & José Nogueira – A Luz e a Escuridão
- Carlos Bica, Frank Möbus, Jim Black – Azul
- Cantigas de Amigos – São Macaio/A Garrafa
- Clã - Pois
- Dulce Pontes – Modinha das Saias
- Bana
- Jorge Palma – Acto Contínuo
- Joe Zawinul – Faces & Places, João on one track
- Carinhoso – Ingénuo
- Simentera – Lua Cheia
- Pirilampo Mágico – Faz a Magia Voar
- DEP – Esquece Tudo O Que Aprendeste
- Danças Ocultas
- Saxofour – European Christmas
- Saxofour – Cinco
- Teresa Salgueiro – Obrigado, João on two tracks
- Blasted Mechanism – Avatara, João on one track
- Clã – Vivo, João on one track
- D'Herbe Foundation – Inner Face, João on two tracks
- Lucía Martínez Cuarteto – Soños e Delirios, João on one track
- Jan Gunnar Hoff – Magma
- Vera e os Seus Amigos – Papagaio Fofoca
- Ogre – Electrodoméstico, João on one track
- Guinga – Porto da Madama with Esperanza Spalding, Maria Pia e Vito and Mônica Salmaso
- David Helbock´s Austrian Syndicate on track "Komm, lieber Mai und Mache"