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Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Eliane Elias: An Ipanema Pianist-Singer With Force

The Brazilian pianist and singer Eliane Elias commands the keyboard with a forceful two-handed muscularity that belies her image as a blond older sister of the mythical Girl From Ipanema. The more percussive her pianism becomes, the more she opens up a song and reimagines it in what might be called a romantic carnival groove





[nytimes.com]


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