Mariá Portugal

Despite her still young years, drummer and singer Mariá Portugal who has a university degree not only in composition but also communications and semiotics, is already able to look back on 20 very active years as a musician. Her work in her home country Brazil has included collaborations with artists such as Arrigo Barnabé, Elza Soares, Maria Beraldo as well as her own instrumental project Quartabê. Since 2020 she has also been performing in Europe where she now has a second home in Germany. Here she has been playing not only with the big names such as Angelika Niescier, Gerald Cleaver, Joëlle Leandre, Billy Martin, Fred Frith and Jasper van't Hof, but is also increasingly working as a curator and composer for dance, theatre, and film – the film “1976”, for which Portugal wrote the soundtrack, has just premiered in Cannes.