“It’s refreshing to listen to Lu Horta’s work. With a clear and sensitive voice, she presents her own songs that brim with emotion. The sound is original and well accomplished. She has something to say, and the security to say it in her own way. She is at once calm and determined. May she continue always to sing.” Arnaldo Antunes

“Lu Horta is a restless composer and a mature singer. Her work is the antidote to laziness and mental weakness of the creative mind. She is part of a generation that wants to be heard regardless of any fashionable tendencies. It is a relief to run into people like this: creative, willing and aware. Let the complainers be quiet, we want to listen to Lu Horta.” Chico César

Lu Horta is a singer and a composer. She graduated in 1993 at the School of Music at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since then she has been developing projects in the music scene in Sao Paulo.

In 1995 she participated in the recording of the CD O Catarina by composer Luis Gayotto and in the recording of a CD by the band Jambêndola where she sang and created some of its vocal arrangements. During that year she created the quartet Legítimas so as baianas, performing as the lead singer.

In 1996 she became part of the vocal and body percussion group Barbatuques, with whom she still performs today.

In 1999 Lu was invited to participate in Luis Gayotto’s second CD Viver e o Amor na Cidade Grande and she also sang in Remo Pellegrini’s CD. In the same year she composed the song “Fiorina” for the play Anunciação, which won the Panamco award for the best children play in 2000. “Fiorina” won the “Demo of the month Senheiser” award.

In 2002 she released Barbatuques first CD, Corpo do Som. The band has been performing in Rio and Sao Paulo and in January of 2003, it was invited to perform in Paris and Cannes.

In 2002, Lu finished recording her first solo CD with her own compositions. She has shown her new work as part of project Casa da Prata at Sesc Pompeia, an important cultural center in Sao Paulo.

Lu Horta has been studying vocal technique for 10 years with Mauricio Martinazzo. In 1998 she completed the “Audio Vocal” course at Institute Tomatis in Paris. In 2002 she attended both courses “A Arte do Canto e o Desenvolvimento Individual” (The art of singing and the individual development) and “O Ouvido e a Arte do Canto” (The ear and the art of singing) taught by Thomas Adam at the Rudolf Steiner Cultural Center in Sao Paulo. She studied vocal and corporal percussion with Stênio Mendes and Fernando Barboza and rhythmic with Jose Eduardo Gramani. She works as a music teacher and develops workshops on music perception and vocal and body percussion.

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Membre de Barbatuques, découverte et encouragée par Arnaldo Antunes et Chico César, Lu Horta est considérée comme « la Camille » brésilienne. Voix claire, sensuelle et remplie d’émotion, musique et arrangements résolument modernes et loin des tendances, Lu Horta est une créatrice de talent à l’écoute de sa génération.