The duo Maria João & Mário Laginha represents an example of unusual complicity and a high point of jazz and sung music in Portugal. We also talk about two of the most important ambassadors of national jazz, with several hundred concerts across borders, across the various corners of the globe, in addition to more than a dozen albums recorded over the last two decades.

Maria João owns a unique vocal instrument and an ear that allows her to explore any musical territory with surprising naturalness and implacable security.  For these reasons, to which_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_a tremendous spontaneity and ability to improvise, Maria João represents the envy of all singers, Esperanza Spalding being the one who considers her, alongside the mythical Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan or Dinah Washington, as one of its main models and inspirations.