Guide Note

Brazilian Girls are a quartet from New York whose music is characterized by their mixing of the musical genres reggae, tango, chanson, house, electronica, jazz and bossa nova.

The band is composed of three men and one female member, who is singer Sabine Sciubba. She usually incorporates various languages into their music such as German, Spanish, French, Italian and English which she learned in her childhood. Sciubba began to gain attention when she recorded her two first jazz albums: You Do not Know What Love Is and Meet Me in London. The band was founded officially in 2003 in a New York club which helped accelerate their success. In 2004 the band contributed to Wax Poetic' s release The Nublu Sessions. Members Aaron Johnston and Jesse Murphy worked on John Zorn' s album Voices in the Wilderness.

Verve Records came to be interested in working with the band and in 2004 the label released Lazy Lover, an EP. The band's self-titled debut album was released in 2005, and their second album entitled Talk to La Bomb hit the streets in September 2006. Their third album is due to be released in early 2008.

Fast Facts

1. Origin: New York City
2. Years Active: 2003 to Present
3. Record Label: Verve Records
4. Members: Sabina Sciubba, Didi Gutman, Aaron Johnston, Jesse Murphy
5. Instruments: Keyboards and Computers, Bass, Drums and Vocals
6. Despite their name, no one in the band is Brazilian
7. Sciubba was born in Rome and grew up in Munich and Nice
8. The band made their television debut on The Jimmy Kimmel Show in March, 2005
9. The band became one of the first artists to release a video album through iTunes in 2005
10. The song "Me Gustas Cuando Callas" ("I like you when you're silent") is a poem by Chilean writer Pablo Neruda
11. Their song "Jique" was used in the Blackberry's advertisement in 2007
12. Discography

• "Brazilian Girls have taken the elegant seduction and gentle mystery of a Film Noir nightclub act, and infused it with the force and vivacity of the dance beat."—Jane Ratcliffe, Vogue, Interview, Vh1