Banda Brasil combines traditional Brazilian music with the country's modern music. Exciting, emotionally charged songs, performed by first-class musicians from the German-Brazilian community. Samba, Bossa Nova, Salsa, Funk at its best.

Christiane Ruvenal (voc) - in Munich since 2010, is unmistakably the heart of this formation founded in 2017. Growing up in Bahia - northern Brazil - she sang with the best-known bands from the region from a young age. She has studied pretty much all Brazilian styles and naturally knows Brazilian standards like the back of her hand. She is currently taking courses in jazz singing at the Munich Music Academy. She is supported by first-class musicians from the Munich jazz scene.

Tom Reinbrecht (sax) - played and worked with, among others: The New York Voices, Nathalie Cole, Paul Carrack, Victoria Horne, Dusko Goykovic, Bobby Shew, Stefan Gwildis, Lou Bega, Hape Kerkeling, Harold Faltermeyer, Max Raabe, Ron Williams, Johnny Logan - "a true phrasing magician and virtuoso of fine rhythm - "One of the most virtuoso saxophonists far and wide, above all a master of the soulful sound almost unrivaled throughout Europe." Oliver Hochkeppel, Süddeutsche Zeitung"

Tizian Jost (piano) - jazz pianist, has spent 35 years as a professional on stage with wonderful minds and great masters of the genre. Countless festivals (including Berlin, New Delhi, San Javier), over 60 CD productions (including 13 productions as leader or co-leader) and guest appearances on four continents round off his musical vita. A lecturer in jazz piano since 1995 and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich since 2014, he is not only a master of jazz piano, but also an expert in Brazilian music and a sought-after partner for cross-over projects, for example with the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Opera and many more.

Paul Tietze (bass) - a sought-after bassist not only in the German-speaking scene, impresses with his concise, time-oriented playing and has been an integral part of Banda Brasil for many years. A dream of every drummer.

Elmar Schmidt has long been regarded as THE authority on Brazilian music acts in this country, but is also in demand internationally as a studio and orchestral drummer. After completing a classical music degree, he played with international music greats such as Chris de Burgh, Klaus Doldinger, Jennifer Rush, Temptations, Eartha Kitt, Gloria Gaynor and many more, toured with the Duke Ellington musical "Sophisticated Ladies" (feat. DeeDee Bridgewater), "RATPACK" - as well as the "United Jazz & Rock Ensemble" and many more.

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