Joyce Moreno

She has since produced 45 more discs and two DVDs, has written nearly 400 songs, and also has four nominations for the Latin Grammy Awards (2000, 2004, 2005 and 2010). Since the beginning of her career, her trademarks have been a feminine language in the first person and her guitar skills. Her creations are also featured in two film soundtracks: Robert Altman's 1992 The Player and Robert Luketic's Legally Blonde. She participated on the soundtrack of Japanese anime series Wolf's Rain, for which her work was included as part of the official soundtrack.

• Name — Joyce Moreno • Birth Name — Joyce Silveira Palhano de Jesus • Born — 31 January 1948 • Origin — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Instrument — Singing, guitar • Genre — Jazz, MPB, bossa nova • Occupation — Singer, songwriter, guitarist, arranger • Years Active — 1968–present • Label — Far Out Recordings • Website — joycemoreno.com/

Moreno's paternal grandfather was a Swede, from Karlskrona, who moved to Copenhagen and married a Danish woman. Their son, Joyce's father, moved from Denmark to Brazil and married a Brazilian woman, Joyce's mother.

In Brazil, she has become initially known in 1967, a year before releasing her first album, when she performed her song Me Disseram at the II International Song Festival (RJ), but the peak of her popularity happened in the early 1980s, when she presented "Clareana", a song she wrote dedicated to her two infant daughters, at TV Globo's Brazilian Popular Music Festival. The song was a hit across the country and appeared on her 1980 album Feminina, which also included other hits such as the title tune ("Feminina"), "Mistérios", "Da Cor Brasileira" and "Essa Mulher". From then on, she has released a series of albums with her own original compositions, recorded in Brazil and abroad; albums dedicated to the works of Vinicius de Moraes, her artistic godfather, Tom Jobim, Elis Regina and Dorival Caymmi; and many recordings in partnership with other musicians.

Still in the 1980s, she had a first presence on the international circuit, when, replacing guitarist Toquinho, she performed with the poet Vinicius de Moraes on tours throughout Latin America and Europe. It was a period in which she recorded albums in Italy and the United States, during a season of concerts in New York, in 1977. In 1985, she was invited to participate in the Youth Festival, in Moscow, and the Yamaha Festival, in Japan, starting a solid career abroad that involves annual tours in several countries in Europe, Japan, the United States and Canada - a schedule that reconciles with performances in Brazil. In 2004, she was awarded in the United States with the Lifetime Achievement International Press Award, given by the press to personalities who disseminate a positive image of their countries abroad. Three years earlier, for the same reason, she had received the key to the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania (US). In 2015 she entered the list of honored artists by the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, US, having her work arranged and performed by graduates and presented in a large concert at the university's theater. At the time, she received honors from the Boston City Council and the Massachusetts State Assembly for her contribution to Brazilian culture and for promoting this culture internationally. Joyce is also an educator, conducting workshops and master classes about her music and MPB at universities in several countries. In the early 1990s, her work became increasingly popular among London DJs, which led to new audiences around the world in the acid jazz scene. It was in the debut edition of the Latin Grammy, in 2000, that Joyce Moreno received her first award nomination, in the category Best Brazilian Music CD, with the album Astronauta: Canções de Elis, a tribute to Elis Regina recorded in 1998, in New York. Four years later, it was the turn of the samba A Banda Maluca to appear among the candidates for the award for Best Song in the Portuguese Language. In 2005, the CD Banda Maluca was nominated in the Best Brazilian Popular Music Album category. The fourth nomination for the Latin Grammy, also for best Brazilian music CD, occurred in 2010, with her album Slow Music.

In November 2020, Joyce published Aquelas Coisas Todas, her second book of memoirs, edited in two parts. Part One is the updated version of Fotografei Você na Minha Rolleiflex, while in Part Two, Tudo é uma Canção, the artist presents new stories based on the idea that MPB "has an answer for everything". In a report about the release, the Estado de Minas newspaper highlighted: "Manifestations against the dictatorship, travels, festivals, growing musical movements, such as bossa nova and Tropicália, misunderstandings and confusions between artists that would eventually go down in history. When something like this happened, Joyce Moreno was there". The book had great repercussion in the national press and was the basis of a four-chapter miniseries presented on SESC 24 de Maio's YouTube channel, in which the artist approaches texts from the book with complementary accounts and interpretations of songs related to the stories. In parallel, the record company Pau Brasil released in digital format the album Fiz uma Viagem - Songs of Dorival Caymmi, recorded in 2016 in Norway and released in Japan the following year. In this work, Moreno interprets the songs of the composer from Bahia accompanied by bassist Rodolfo Stroeter, also producer of the album, by the pianist Hélio Alves and by Tutty Moreno, who played drums and percussion. Joyce was married in the early 1970s to musician and composer Nelson Angelo, with whom she has two daughters who are also singers, Clara Moreno and Ana Martins. Since 1977, she has been married to drummer Tutty Moreno, father of her daughter Mina Mae (originally named as Mariana). Tutty has since then been a steady presence in Joyce's life as a stage and recording partner.