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Badi Assad was born on 23 December, 1966 in São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil, is a Brazilian jazz/worldbeat musician. Discover Badi Assad's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Occupation Singer, musician, composer
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 23 December, 1966
Birthday 23 December
Birthplace São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil
Nationality Brazil

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1966

Badi Assad (born 23 December 1966) is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitarist in the jazz and worldbeat genres.

Assad was born in São João da Boa Vista in the state of São Paulo, but lived in Rio de Janeiro until she was twelve.

Her father, Jorge Assad, of Lebanese descent, plays bandolim (mandolin), and her two older brothers are the classical guitarists Sérgio Assad and Odair Assad of Duo Assad.

1972

APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Clinics) – one of the most important awards in Brazil since 1972 – recently awarded her for her work in songwriting and composition.

The same evening the Brazilian Marisa Monte also graced the same stage.

1984

Assad studied classical guitar at the University of Rio de Janeiro and won the Young Instrumentalists Contest ("Concurso Jovens Instrumentistas for Young Musicians") in Rio de Janeiro in 1984.

1986

In 1986, she joined the Guitar Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro, headed by guitarist Turíbio Santos as conductor.

1987

In 1987, she was named "Best Brazilian Guitarist" of the International Heitor Villa-Lobos Festival.

By 1987 she had played in Europe, Israel and Brazil with guitarist Françoise-Emmanuelle Denis under the name Duo Romantique.

1988

In 1988 she wrote Antagonismus, a solo performance in which she worked as guitarist, singer, actress and dancer.

She released her first solo album, Dança dos Tons, in 1988.

1989

In 1989 she was selected out of two hundred women to perform as one of two vocalists in the play Mulheres de Hollanda, a musical written by Tatiana Cobbett, based on the works of Chico Buarque de Holanda.

1992

Assad has also been featured in the Heineken Concerts in 1992 with Raul de Souza and Heraldo do Monte, and in 1993 with Rafael Rabello, Dori Caymmi and Marisa Monte.

1994

In 1994, she became associated with Chesky Records and recorded the album Solo, followed in 1995 with Rhythms, which won Guitar Player magazine's readers' poll for Best Classical Album of the Year.

1995

Assad, who sings in English and Portuguese, was voted Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitarist by the editors of Guitar Player in 1995.

1998

In 1998 she released Chameleon.

Her appearance on the French night-time talk show Canal+ was seen by over two million viewers.

In July 1998, she played Europe's most renowned summer festivals sharing the stage with such artists as Cassandra Wilson, Joe Cocker, Maria Joao and fellow Brazilians Chico Cesar, Marisa Monte, and Gilberto Gil.

Owing to a motor disability called Focal dystonia, she was unable to play between 1998 and 2001, but she made a complete recovery and released a collaborative album with her former partner Jeff Young in 2002 called Nowhere, and 3 Guitars the following year for the Chesky label with jazz guitarists Larry Coryell and John Abercrombie.

2003

The single, "Waves", landed in Spain's Top 10 for many weeks and was included in the soundtrack of the 2003 film It Runs in the Family.

2004

In 2004 she signed with the acclaimed German label Deutsche Grammophon, releasing two albums: Verde (2004) and Wonderland (2006).

Assad loves to re-create songs.

In Verde, she brought a bossa-nova style to "One" by U2 and a tango "Bachelorette" by Björk.

For Wonderland, she brought songs by Eurythmics, Vangelis, and Tori Amos into her world music style.

Wonderland was selected among Britain's BBC 100 best CDs.

2005

In 2005 she released an album and DVD with her family: Sergio e Odair Assad and Their Family – Um Momento De Puro Amor.

2010

In 2010 Badi released her first DVD, Badi Assad, which she and her husband Dimitri Vakros co-produced.

It was directed by Assad's nephew Rodrigo Assad (son of Sérgio Assad).

This DVD displays her live performance experimentation.

In the same year she was featured performer (actress/singer) in the opera-musical Opera das Pedras, in São Paulo, Brasil, directed by Denise Milan and Lee Breuer.

2011

In 2011 she started a new project with her brothers Sérgio and Odair and their daughters Clarice and Carolina, as a quintet.

They have been touring the world.

Assad was voted one of the best guitarists in the world by Guitar Player magazine.

She has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah McLachlan, Seu Jorge, and Naná Vasconcelos.

She has performed in some of the most prestigious international festivals such as Montreal Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands as well as in such theater venues as L'Opera de Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Palais de Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

She has also appeared in Farm Aid and Lilith Fair.

2012

In 2012 Assad made her first trip to India at the invitation of the Brazilian Embassy; it was a side event of the visit of the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to represent Brazil at the IV BRICS Summit, an event that brings together the major emerging economies of the world.

She also performed with the Ballet Teatro Castro Alves at the Venice Biennale.

In November she released her first independent and authorial album Amor e Outras Manias Crônicas through her own label Quatro Ventos.

2013

In 2013 Assad released Between Love and Luck in U.S. and her song "Pega no Coco" won the first prize as the Best World Music in the U.S. Songwriting Competition.