SN8 | Ep417 - Eliane Elias - Multi GRAMMY® Winning Pianist-Singer-Composer

*** This special episode is dedicated in loving memory to Chick CoreaMy Special Guest is Multi GRAMMY® winning pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias.The NEW Album is MIRROR MIRRORFeaturing Chick Corea  & Chucho Valdés.Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Eliane began her classical piano studies at age seven and at twelve was transcribing solos from the great jazz masters.Eliane’s illustrious career includes nearly 30 recordings, over 2.3 million albums sold, nine total GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominations, a GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Album (Made in Brazil, 2016) and a Latin GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album (Dance of Time, 2017).MIRROR MIRROR marks the classically trained pianist’s first piano-only recording since 1995’s Solos and Duets, a set of piano solos and six duets with pianist Herbie Hancock.Working with the two incredible icons, Chick Corea  & Chucho Valdés was a rare opportunity to record in a two-piano setting, something she hasn’t done in many years.By 15, Eliane was teaching piano and improvisation at one of Brazil’s most prestigious schools of music.Her performing career began just two years later.Eliane’s first official album under her own name, Illusions, featured Stanley Clarke, Steve Gadd, Lenny White, Eddie Gomez and Toots Thielemans and hit #1 on the Radio & Records Contemporary Jazz chart.Voted Best New Talent in the Jazziz magazine critics’ poll in 1988, Eliane is a four-time Gold Disc Award recipient, a three-time Best Vocal Album winner in Japan and winner of the 2018 Edison Lifetime Achievement Award in Holland.Her 2019 album Love Stories, as most of her previous releases, hit #1 on the jazz charts worldwide.ELIANE ELIAS - The NEW Album is MIRROR MIRRORFeaturing Chick Corea  & Chucho ValdésThe CD is available for STREAMING NOW and will be available on CD & VINYL NOV 12, 2021On The Web - www.elianeelias.com Instagram: @elianeeliasofficialYouTube: Eliane Elias Official Spotify: Eliane Elias