Dani Gurgel is a Brazilian singer, whose percussive, syncopated and “fantastic syllables” (NDR) flow through Jazz and Pop music, while keeping her feet in Brazilian rhythms.
Dr. Dani Gurgel has earned a PhD on Music Communication from São Paulo University. She researches digital cultural industries from the inside our, while integrating her music, photography and audiovisual work.
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"Dani skirted gender biases in jazz culture by learning to do and play “everything”.
DDG19 Big Band is a joyous and thoroughly enjoyable outing."
DDG19 Big Band is a joyous and thoroughly enjoyable outing."
Katchie Cartwright
All About Jazz
"Dani stitches every band member together syllable by syllable, pushes forward with her scat singing, and as part of it develops a great sense of the collective's movements.
Speed is never an obstacle."
Speed is never an obstacle."
Ralf Thürsam
Märkische Allgemeine
"Dani Gurgel's breathtakingly precise vocal lines (...) making her new album a light-footed manifesto of highly virtuosic interaction."
Thomas Haak
NDR