Tiê Gasparinetti Biral, simply known as Tiê (São Paulo, March 17, 1980), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter.
Biography
The granddaughter of the actress
Vida Alves, Tiê approached music in her high school years, when she founded a band and won an award in a student music competition in 1997.
The turning point came when she was noticed by singer
Toquinho
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Childhood and musical studies
Toquinho was b ...
while performing at Café Brechó, a bar-restaurant next to the
MTV
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studios where he was recording an album.
After having joined Toquinho on tour for two years, Tiê began to prepare her own repertoire, composing her own songs and learning to play the guitar.
After releasing an EP in 2007 in collaboration with musician Dudu Tsuda, she made her solo recording debut in 2009, with the album ''Sweet Jardim''.
For this album Tiê was nominated in the
MPB category at the
MTV Video Music Brasil
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Unlike in the MTV V ...
. Her second album, ''A Coruja e o Coração'', which features collaborations with
Jorge Drexler
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In 2004, Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan to win an Academy Award, which he won for compos ...
,
Marcelo Jeneci
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,
Tulipa Ruiz and
Dorgival Dantas, was included in the list of 50 albums that formed the Brazilian musical identity of the new millennium published by ''
Folha de S. Paulo''.
Several of her songs were used as theme songs for
telenovelas
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, notably "A Noite", a cover version of
Arisa
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Early life
Arisa was born in Genoa, Italy. A week after her birth, her family moved back to their original hometown, Pignola, a villa ...
's "
La notte
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", which was picked as the theme song of ''
I Love Paraisópolis
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''.
Discography
Studio albums
* 2007 – ''E.P. 1'' (EP)
* 2009 – ''Sweet Jardim''
* 2011 – ''A Coruja e o Coração''
* 2014 – ''Esmeraldas''
* 2017 – ''Gaya''
Live albums
* 2019 – ''Dix''
References
External links
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1980 births
Living people
Brazilian singer-songwriters
Brazilian lyricists
Música Popular Brasileira singers
Musicians from São Paulo
21st-century Brazilian singers