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JP Trumpet

Born in 1992, she is a Portuguese trumpeter of African descent (Angola and Cape Verde), with jazz influences, improvised music and world music. With an innate talent and a very own identity and sound.
He started studying trumpet at age 8 at the Sociedade Filarmónica Amizade Visconde de Alcácer do Sal. He continued his studies in a self-taught way until, in 2011, he attended a jazz school for the first time, the Jazz School of the Lisbon Conservatory. In 2012 she joined the University of Évora, in the jazz trumpet course, which she attended for 3 years and finished her degree in 2015 with Professor Johannes Krieger.
In the jazz area, he played, for example, with the Claus Nymark Big Band, Reunion Big Jazz Band, Orquestra do Hot Clube de Portugal, sharing the stage with Anthony Strong, Alexander Stewart, Tokunbo, Isabella Lundgren.

Her passion for African music has always been present and in this field she has played and recorded with Bonga, Don Kikas, Konde, Grace Évora, Karyna Gomes, Paulo Flores, Johnny Ramos, Nelo Carvalho, Dany Silva among others.

He has stepped on stages in Portugal, Spain, Norway, Latvia, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Morocco, Tanzania, Kenya, and Timor. She is a trumpeter in residence on a TV show on RTP Africa, where she has played with artists such as Djodje, Lúcia de Carvalho, Yuri da Cunha, Kika Cardoso, Adé da Costa, Enoque, Constantino Cardoso, etc.

He is currently on tour with Madonna.

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