Jazz Concert by Eliane Elias

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department has invited Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award winner Eliane Elias to make her Hong Kong debut in May. In this much-anticipated jazz concert for music fans in the city, Elias will unleash her diverse musical talents by performing her greatest hits in her trademark performance style.

The versatile Brazilian musician was unable to come to Hong Kong as scheduled in November last year, and her jazz concert has now been rescheduled for May 28 (Tuesday). Elias, together with her longtime collaborative jazz musicians Marc Johnson (double bass), Leandro Pellegrino (guitar) and Rafael Barata (drums), will combine jazz, Brazilian, classical and pop music styles in the upcoming concert including “Quietude” that features bossa nova jazz balladry. With her alluring voice, virtuosic piano skills and impromptu live interpretation, Elias will bring the audience a jazz music evening filled with a Latin flare.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Eliane Elias is an internationally acclaimed multi Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning recording artist. She is a pianist, singer, composer as well as an arranger. Her distinctive musical style is one of the most unique and immediately recognisable sounds in jazz and Brazilian music. Elias blends her Brazilian roots and alluring voice with her virtuosic instrumental jazz, classical and compositional skills. Her pianistic mastery and ability to integrate the multiple artistic roles she takes on are consistently displayed in her performances.

Elias’ album Mirror Mirror (2021) won the Grammy Award and the Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album/Jazz Album in 2022. Her album Quietude (2022) debuted as #1 on Billboard, iTunes, Amazon Jazz Charts and received a Libera Award Nomination for Best Latin Record in 2023.

With thirty-one albums and over 2.4 million albums sold to date, Elias has toured in seventy-four countries. Her albums Love Stories (2019) and Mirror Mirror (2021) were both voted Downbeat’s Best Album of the Year – Masterpiece and hit #1 on the jazz charts worldwide like most of her previous releases. Elias is a four-time Gold Disc Award recipient, a three-time Best Vocal Album winner in Japan and winner of the 2018 Edison Lifetime Achievement Award in Holland to name a few accolades. She received two Libera Award nominations for Best Latin Record in 2017 and 2023, and has been nominated ten times by the Grammys and Latin Grammys, receiving nominations in five different categories and won two Grammys and two Latin Grammys to date.