Biography

Eliane Elias is a multi-Grammy® and Multi-Latin Grammy® Award-winning recording artist, pianist/singer/composer/arranger. Her unique musical style blends her Brazilian roots and alluring voice with virtuosic instrumental jazz, classical and compositional skills. Her 2021 album MIRROR MIRROR won the GRAMMY Award and the Latin GRAMMY Award for Best Latin Jazz Album/Jazz Album in 2022. Her 2022 album Quietude debuted at #1 on Billboard, iTunes, Amazon Jazz Charts, and received a LIBERA Award Nomination for Best Latin Record in 2023. Elias has 31 albums and over 2.4 million albums sold to date, toured in 74 countries, and received two LIBERA Award nominations for Best Latin Record in 2017 and 2023. Her 2019 and 2021 albums were both voted "Downbeat's Best Album of the Year - Masterpiece" and hit #1 on the jazz charts worldwide. Elias is known for her superb musicianship, blending her vocals with her robust jazz piano accompaniment, and her ability to attack music like a lioness attacking its prey.

“The Brazilian pianist and singer Eliane Elias commands the keyboard with a forceful two-handed muscularity that belies her image as a blond older sister of the mythical Girl From Ipanema.” – The New York Times

"... what distinguishes Elias as one of today's leading bossa nova interpreters is her superb musicianship, the way she floats above the rhythm and meshes her vocals with her robust jazz piano accompaniment.*****" - Associated Press

"Eliane Elias is of a generation of aggressive pianists who attack music like a lioness attacking its prey, at the same time expressing a tenderness within the core of her passion that at times has brought me to tears." - Herbie Hancock