Over the course of a distinguished career spanning 31 albums, multi-GRAMMY®-winning pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias’ distinctive musical style has emerged as one of the most unique and immediately recognizable sounds in jazz. With over 2.4 million albums sold to date, Elias blends her Brazilian roots and alluring voice with her virtuosic instrumental jazz, classical and compositional skills, while she consistently displays her pianistic mastery and ability to integrate the many artistic roles she takes on.
Elias’ 2021 album Mirror Mirror on Candid Records earned the 2022 GRAMMY® Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. The album features piano duets with the late legendary jazz great Chick Corea, and famed Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés.
Hot off the success of Mirror Mirror, Eliane brings us her latest recording Quietude released on Candid Records in October 2022.” On Quietude, the piano takes a lower profile with Eliane’s intoxicating and intimate singing taking center stage, often with acoustic guitar support in a swinging bossa nova sensibility. The vocalist-guitarist duo brings the authentic tradition but in a very personal and expressive way through Eliane’s harmonic approach as revealed in these gorgeous arrangements. “I like to make music that I personally would like to hear” states Eliane. “This album makes me feel good, at peace and relaxed and I hope that listeners feel the same.”
To date, Eliane has won two GRAMMY® Awards, a Latin GRAMMY® Award, four Gold Disc Awards and is a three-time Best Vocal Album winner in Japan. She was the recipient of the 2018 Edison Lifetime Achievement Award in The Netherlands. She’s been nominated for ten GRAMMY® Awards in five different categories. Her three most recent recordings reached the #1 position on the Billboard charts, iTunes, jazz radio charts and Amazon best seller charts and her albums (Love Stories and Mirror Mirror) were both voted “Downbeat’s Best Album of the Year – Masterpiece”. Eliane has toured 74 countries, has a strong presence on Spotify with over 600,000 monthly listeners and over 26 million Spotify listens of her song “Little Paradise.