
VANESSA FALABELLA
Singer Songwriter DJVocalist
2020 - Oct - Recording original songs w/ Richard Miller
2020 - Oct - Music on the Inside Live
2020 - Aug - Tribute to Cazuza Live on YouTube (w/ Marina, Sandra de Sá, Frejah)
2020 - Mar - July - 4 weekly Lives - Instagram, Facebook
2020 - Mar - DJVocalist - Baby Brasa, NY
2020 - Jan - Loving Whisper’s Concert - Jazz Forum
2020 - Single: “Eu Quero o Samba” (w/ Rubem Farias)
2020 - Single: “Eu sou do Mar” produced by Zeca Baleiro
2020 - Live w/ Zeca Baleiro for RainForest Foundation Live
(w/ Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Sting, Milton Nascimento)
2019 - DJVocalist, ForestDefenders - The United Nations
2019 - Nov -Thailand Brazilian Jazz Series - The Living Room, Bangkok
2019 - Aug 21 - "Loving Whisper” Release - Joe’s Pub, NY
2019 - Concert with Run N Fly Band - Blue Note, NY
2019 - July 24 - Lexington Hotel, NY
2019 - Sundays of Sep - Zinc Bar NY
2019 - Nov 8 -15 - Baby Brasa
2018 - DJVocalist in Brussels, Kent
2018 - Vocals - Carlos Dias's “Copacabana Station”
2018 - Concert w/ Run N Fly - The Iridium, NY
2018 - Thu DJVocalist - Baby Brasa, NY
2018 - Tue DJVocalist - Renaissance Harlem, NY
2018 - Vanessa Falabella Group - The Iridium, NY
2018 - Oct 26, DJVocalist - The Standard Hotel, NY
2017 - US Tour w/ Arthur Lipner & Nanny Assis
2017 - Brazilian Music Soul - Blue Note Jazz Festival - NY
2017 - May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Brazilian Music Soul - Subrosa, NY
2017 - Apr 24, Brazilian Music Soul - Bonafide, NY
2017 - Vanessa Falabella Group - The Iridium, BBKing, NY
2017 - Art Meets Music II Feat. Vanessa Falabella - Drom, NY
2016 - May 11, w/ Cidinho Teixeira - Zinc Bar, NY
2016 - “Falabella de Cartola” and Residency - Japan
2015 - Sep w/ Brazilian Music Soul - BBKing, NY
2014 - Aug 5 - Vanessa Falabella - The Iridium, NY
2014 - Album release: “Outras Esquinas"
2014 - Tour w/ The Platters - Brazil (26 cities), Thailand, Chile
2013 - Tour w/ Cyro Baptista and Romero Lubambo US, Brasil.
•Also appears on Recordings with Nelson Angelo, Rubem Farias,
Philippe Saisse, Arthur Lipner, Sandro Albert, Cindy Mizelle, Daryl Tookes,
Omar Hakim, Bashiri Johnson, Toninho Horta, Claude Mcknight,
Agenor di Lorenzi, Edson Aquino, Café, Richard Miller, Vinícius Cantuária
About Vanessa's Loving Whisper
Review by Raul da Gama
As she soars upwards on key words in the lyric throughout – making the obvious often seem special – Miss Falabella’s top register seems as golden as ever, matched (as always) as the smoky sensuality of the notes she squeezes out in her bottom register. As always, the instrumentalists strike a perfect balance with her enhancing the pliancy and passionate eloquence of the music. “Deus Dará” and “Loving Whisper” (Água) – the latter which closes the album are poignant examples of Miss Falabella’s unique vocal abilities.
As ever, both tracks prove Miss Falabella to be the queen of precise diction in both English and Portuguese. She is Brasilian, so the precision of her Portuguese is a given, but as the English repertoire such as “Another Song,” “Passion,” and “Loving Whisper” prove Miss Falabella is able to combine delicacy and languorous English idiom with her emotive Brasilian style as well. The built in sensuality of her voice makes for the intimate domestic tone required to make the romance of these musings come to live in a vivid and believable manner. The genius of co-producer Soli’s hand in this (as well as in the rest of the repertoire on the album) is palpable in the luscious musical atmosphere and sound design.
The joy and frailty of human love drives this music into a meditative and passionate place and it is clear that Miss Falabella’s stylish and sensitive vocalastics make this happen. But make no mistake production values here also have contributed to turning what might have been a good recording and a great one. In this regard the performances of the musicians – not just from the celebrated ones such as Vinícius Cantuária, but all of the others as well – have as much a role to play in all of this. Miss Falabella has always been an artist of the first order but “Loving Whisper” enables us to feel her artistry with greater clarity and amplitude as both her singing and the accompaniment have a touch more incisiveness and assurance.
Raul da Gama