Singer, pianist and Sao Paulo native Abelita Mateus is in the vanguard of the next wave of soulful and hypnotic 21st Century Brazilian music.

A New Yorker since 2012, her 2017 debut album Vivenda made the jazz chart's Top 25 and Downbeat wrote that her 2018 follow-up record Mixed Feelings "shows off an impressive ability to synthesize the sounds of her Brazilian home with jazz, the music that inspired her move to the States."