Tania Maria

Tania Maria sits in a sweet spot I genuinely love, where Brazilian rhythm meets jazz improvisation and refuses to sit still in either camp. The way her music slides between samba, bossa, Afro-Latin grooves and jazz fusion, sometimes in Portuguese and sometimes in English, gives it a restless, joyful energy that I find hard to resist. Her piano and voice working together as one instrument is the kind of musicianship that rewards close listening. The French Order of Arts and Letters feels like fitting recognition for an artist who has spent decades bridging continents. To me she's a quietly essential name in jazz.

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Name (English)

Tania Maria

Name (Japanese)

タニア・マリア

Reading

たにあ・まりあ

Born

May 9, 1948 (age 78)

Origin

São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil

Occupation

pianist / singer / songwriter / jazz musician / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

Awards & achievements

• Officer of Arts and Letters

• Official sitehttp://www.taniamaria.org
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania%20Maria
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469539

Tags

• Maranhão
• pianist
• singer
• songwriter

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.