Ed Motta

Ed Motta is the kind of artist I'd happily evangelize for. A Rio de Janeiro native fluent in MPB, soul, funk and jazz, and the nephew of the great Tim Maia, he carries serious musical lineage and clearly refuses to be boxed in. Singer, composer, pianist, guitarist: that breadth usually signals a stubborn personal vision, and his entire career reads like a man chasing his own ear rather than the market's. What I admire most is how he fuses sun-soaked Brazilian warmth with the sophistication of jazz. If you only know him by name, his catalogue is one of the more rewarding deep dives in contemporary music.

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Name (English)

Ed Motta

Name (Japanese)

エド・モッタ

Reading

えど・もった

Born

August 17, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Occupation

singer / composer / jazz musician / pianist / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Boar

• Official sitehttps://edmotta.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/edmotta/
• Xhttps://x.com/EdMotta
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Motta
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%82%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%83%E3%82%BF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2701997

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• singer
• composer
• jazz musician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.