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Flora Purim

Brazil's Flora Purim is a jazz singer with a wide octave range who has achieved international fame leading her own bands, in partnership with her husband Airto Moreira, in a group called Fourth World and as a contributor to concerts and recordings by a great many top jazz artists such as Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and Lawson Rollins. Jazz Review called her "Queen of Brazilian jazz" with a "seductive and playful" voice. Born into a musical family, she began to sing professionally in the early 1960s and late in the decade she became the lead singer for the Quarteto Novo, led b...