Joyce Moreno

Joyce Moreno, a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist, performs at Band On The Wall in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The concert is part of the venue's live programme.

Joyce Moreno was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948 and has been active since 1968, the year of her first solo album. She is associated with bossa nova and música popular brasileira, and works as a singer, composer, arranger and instrumentalist. Her compositions have been recorded by many of the leading names in Brazilian popular music, including Elis Regina, Gal Costa and Milton Nascimento, as well as by artists outside Brazil such as Annie Lennox and Gerry Mulligan.

Her songs have featured in film soundtracks, including The Player and Legally Blonde, and in the Japanese anime Wolf's Rain, made in partnership with composer Yoko Kanno. In the early 1990s, her tune "Aldeia de Ogum" became a widely played dancefloor track through a series of remixes, after DJs in London and elsewhere took it up. She is credited with pioneering the first-person feminine voice in Brazilian song, and she has received four Latin Grammy nominations, in 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2010.

Band On The Wall is a live music venue at 25 Swan Street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, which mainly hosts concerts with a focus on pop, rock and indie. This evening sits in the world music strand of the venue's programme.