Badi Assad - Around The World '2020

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Based in São Paulo, Brazil, virtuoso guitar player, singer, vocal juggler and
songwriter Badi Assad has emerged as one of the most versatile artists of her
generation. With more than 14 albums released worldwide and more than 40 visited
countries, her 2006 CD Wonderland was selected among the 100 Best from the
prestigious BBC London and was also included among the 30 Best on Amazon. The US
magazine, Guitar Player, selected her from a pool of artists (that included the
likes of Ben Harper and Ani DiFranco), as one of the guitar players that would
revolutionize the world.

Embraced by record companies such as Verve (Universal) and eDGe Music (Deutsche
Grammophon), she has played an array of international concerts over the past two
decades, including innovative collaborations with Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo-Ma and
David Broza, among others. She has performed in some of the most prestigious
International Festivals, including North Sea Jazz (NE), Jarazum Jazz (KOR) and
in theaters such as L’Opera de Paris (FR), Palais de Beaux-Arts (BE) and
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (US)...

Some of her songs have reached the Top 10 in Europe. Her hit song, Waves was
featured in the soundtrack of It Runs in the Family, featuring Michael and Kirk
Douglas. In 2004, with the release of Three Guitars, she toured the world with
guitar legends Larry Coryell and John Abercrombie. In 2006, she started a new
project with her Brothers, the famous Duo Assad, masters of the classic guitar.
In July of 2011 the Assad Festival was created to honor the work of the family
as ambassadors of Brazilian Music worldwide. In the following year she went on
to release Between Love and Luck, her first independent album on her own label,
for which she was awarded Best Composer of The Year (APCA/BR). Her song Pega no
Coco won first prize for Best World Music Song at the USA International
Songwriting Competition. Rolling Stone Magazine selected her as among the 70
Best Brazilian Guitar Masters of History.

In July of 2012 Badi, with voice, guitar and kalimba, performed live the entire
repertoire from her CD Verde for the 23 dancers from the Bahian Dance Company
from the Municipal Theater (BTCA) at the Venice Biennale, in Italy. In January
of 2014, Badi was commissioned by the Guitar Festival Marathon in New York to
compose the soundtrack for the screening of the silent Chinese film, The Goddess
(1934). Invited to also serve in the role of Festival Curator, she not only
performed her composition live at New York’s Merkin Hall, but also
received a New York Times highlight as Best of the Festival. Cantos de Casa, her
first CD dedicated to children garnered Trophy Cata-Vento for Best CD of the
Year.

In 2015 she was invited to work with the Chicago-based global peace-building
organization, Genesis at the Crossroads as the Guitarist/Vocalist in their
Saffron Caravan multicultural ensemble alongside Moroccan Vocalist Aaron
Besoussan, Arab Israeli Oud Virtuoso, Haytham Safia and Venezuelan Percussionist
Javier Saume Mazzei, exemplifying their work of arts diplomacy. Additionally she
serves as a panelist on Genesis’ signature roundtables on the arts and
conflict transformation and teaches the music and peace building program for the
Genesis Academy Summer Institute, a leadership training and peace building
educational program for international youth from areas of conflict.

In 2016 Hatched received acclaimed reviews for incubating a new Brazilophilic
way to listen to global hits from modern icon labels including Lorde and
Skrillex. In 2018 she released her first book, Around the World in 80 Artists
(Pólen Livros). The film, BADI directed by Edu Felistoque was named Best Film
by The FestCine Maracanaú in Fortaleza, Brazil, had its international debut
at the 2018 Brazil Summerfest in New York and in the end of the year won Best
Documentary at the LABAFF (Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival).

Tracklisting:
01. Badi Assad - Zoar (4:30)
02. Badi Assad - Acredite ou não (4:03)
03. Badi Assad - Bachelorette (4:08)
04. Badi Assad - O barco daqui de dentro (3:44)
05. Badi Assad - Hunger of the pine (4:59)
06. Badi Assad - Lamma Bada (3:00)
07. Badi Assad - Millones (3:50)
08. Badi Assad - Royals (4:02)
09. Badi Assad - Sedated (3:50)
10. Badi Assad - Ondas (5:08)

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