Aldebarã: uma notável estrela gigante vermelha, a mais brilhante da constelação de Touro, também designada Alpha Touro.
Born in Campo Grande (MS), Thamires Tannous, singer and composer, presents her debut record, "Canto para Aldebarã". The work is amazing; it’s a unique proposal in the contemporary Brazilian music environment.
The CD has 11 songs, which represent different universes that helped create the singer’s background, from her Lebanese roots to her typically Brazilian soul. Most songs were created based on Arab rhythms and tunes, which makes the record unique. Thamires composed nine songs, including partnerships with renowned lyricists such as Luiz Tatit, Kléber Albuquerque, Estrela Leminski and the Portuguese artist Tiago Torres da Silva.
The lyrics are about love, nature and the modern life, with tambourines and goblet drums, acoustic guitars and violins, accordions and guitars, djembes and dafs. All combined with the singer’s soft and intense voice, whose sensitivity inspires us to know more than our own roots.
Some of the musicians participating on this record are: Dante Ozzetti, Ivan Vilela, Toninho Ferragutti, Sérgio Reze, Ricardo Herz and William Bordokan.
Dante Ozzetti, musician and arranger who has worked with Itamar Assumpção, Duofel, Ceumar and Ná Ozzetti, among other artists, was in charge of the production and arrangements on this work. Dante has won two Sharp Awards for Best Arranger and Best Record (“Ná Ozzetti” and “Ná”), won the 3rd MPB Visa Awards – Composers (2000) and the second prize in the “Cultura Festival – Brazil’s New Music” (TV Cultura, 2005) with “Achou!”, in a partnership with Ceumar and Luiz Tatit.
Biography
She just needs to play the first chord. When the tune begins, no one from the audience keeps talking and everybody is thrilled. Thamires Tannous goes beyond the technique that has been improving since she was two years old. Her first musical record was at this age, in a video where she held a broom and asked for silence. Her first contact with an instrument was when she was four years old, with her mother’s piano in Campo Grande. She started studying a few years later. Cristina Neivock gave her first musical lessons and, at the same time, she was conducted by the Portuguese maestro Victor Diniz from the Classical Orchestra of Mato Grosso do Sul, who also gave her violin lessons. She stayed for five years in the Youth and Classical Orchestra, where she also discovered her talent for singing.
At ten years old, she started taking singing lessons and participated in musical groups and presentations at her school. When she was 16, she recorded her first demo CD, produced by the musician Otávio Neto, who had worked with the Fat Family group.
After recording her first songs, she decided to study in São Paulo. She graduated in Advertising in 2009 and worked for three years in this field.
In 2008, Thamires met the producer Nikk Gutierrez and the bass player Peter Mesquita. Both encouraged her talent and she discovered a new world from this moment on, which was crucial for the decision she made a bit later: to leave the office and study music.
Another important person in her trajectory was Ruriá Duprat (Rogério Duprat’s son; Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso arranger), who advised her not to leave her dream. Ruriá told her to take singing lessons with Tutti Baê, vocal coach for the TV show Ídolos and author of three books in this matter.
2010 was a decisive year in her life. After travelling to Europe, her desire to make music – that was forgot when she moved cities and went to College – was reactivated. In 2011, Thamires started studying Popular Singing at Souza Lima & Berklee University and building her artistic career.
She participated in some festivals such as Botucanto and the Festival of Sorocaba, where she won an award for Best Singer with the song “Baião de Um” (Peter Mesquita, Daniel Conti and Cris Aflalo) and won the 3rd prize with the song “Rio-coração” (Thamires Tannous, Peter Mesquita and Edson Penha). She also received an award for best arrangement.
