Great singer and cellist Dom la Nena in the National Jury 2016

Singer, musician, composer

Just shy of her 26th birthday, Brazilian cellist and songwriter Dom La Nena has learned to live in motion. Born Dominique Pinto in the coastal city of Porto Alegre, she spent her childhood split between her hometown and Paris, studying cello and piano.

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She was 13 when she moved to Buenos Aires where the acclaimed American cellist Christine Walevska gave her intensive teaching sessions. It was in Argentina that her older peers dubbed her “La Nena” (“little one”), a nickname that has followed her since.

It is no mystery, then, that the musical voice Dom La Nena grew into is transient and unbounded, taking shelter in the in-between spaces of life. Ela was hailed as a “sonic masterpiece” (NPR), and Dom found herself on the road, touring rigorously and internationally for eighteen months behind the release.

Out of these tours, on nighttime drives, between sound check and show time, came the songs and seedlings of her ambitious new sophomore album, Soyo, out March 3, 2015, co-produced by Brazilian songwriter/singer/guitarist Marcelo Camelo (formerly of the band Laos Hermanos).

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