Also known as Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças
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São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Céu , whose full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label in April 2007. Her name (Céu) means "sky" and "heaven" in Portuguese. (Wikipedia)
Known for
- Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso — Elvira Pagã2025
- Tiny Desk Brazil — Self2025
- Pitty: Admirável Chip Novo (Re)Ativado — Self2023
- Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil — Self2020
- Todas as Melodias — Self2020
- Refavela 40 — Self2019
- #Provoca — Self2019
- Grêmio Recreativo MTV Arnaldo Antunes2011
- O Som do Vinil — Self2007
- Altas Horas2000
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Born Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças on 17th April 1980 in São Paulo, Brazil, her father was a composer, arranger, and musicologist. It was from him that she learned to appreciate Brazil's classical music composers, particularly Heitor Villa-Lobos and Ernesto Nazaré, as well as popular musicians like Orlando Silva. By the age of fifteen she had decided to become a musician, and by her late teens she had studied music theory, as well as the violão (nylon-stringed Brazilian guitar). <a href="https://
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Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Céu
- Musical artist.image
- 2023-06-24 Baile Reggae da Céu no Festival Sensacional, 26 (Céu).jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Céu in 2023
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças
- Musical artist.origin
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Musical artist.instrument
- Vocals, keyboards, percussion
- Musical artist.genre
- MPB, bossa nova, world music, trip hop
- Musical artist.occupation
- Singer-songwriter
- Musical artist.years_active
- 2002–present
- Musical artist.label
- Urban Jungle, Six Degrees
- Musical artist.website
- Céu
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- São Paulo
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Native language
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- 2023-06-24 Baile Reggae da Céu no Festival Sensacional, 26 (Céu).jpg
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
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- date of birth
- 1980-04-17
- birth name
- Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças
- Commons category
- Céu (vocalist)
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- social media followers
- 100000
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Encyclopedic overview
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Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças (born 17 April 1980), known professionally by the mononym Céu (), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label in April 2007.
== Early life and education == thumb|right|230px|Céu, Saint-Nazaire, 2019. 230px|thumb|right|Céu (2022) Céu was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to a musical family. Her father was a composer, arranger, and musicologist. It was from her father that she learned to appreciate Brazil's classical music composers, particularly Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazaré, and Orlando Silva.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Céu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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