Flora Purim

Flora Purim is the kind of artist I think gets under-credited outside jazz circles. A Brazilian voice landing in the heart of 1970s jazz fusion through Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke is no small thing. What I admire is the range of company she kept, from Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz to Santana and Jaco Pastorius, plus her long partnership with Airto Moreira. That 2002 Order of Rio Branco signals her own country recognized her too. To me she represents that fertile crossing of Brazilian rhythm and American improvisation, and her voice always sounded fearless rather than decorative.

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Name (English)

Flora Purim

Name (Japanese)

フローラ・プリム

Reading

ふろーら・ぷりむ

Born

March 6, 1942 (age 84)

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Occupation

singer / jazz musician / jazz singer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

Awards & achievements

• 2002 Order of Rio Branco

• Official sitehttps://www.florapurim.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20Purim
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455229

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• singer
• jazz musician
• jazz singer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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