Maíra Vianna

Local singer-songwriter Maíra Vianna will celebrate the release her debut album, The Fool, with a live performance at 6 tonight at the Praxis Fiber Workshop as part of the Waterloo Makes Music Initiative. A native of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Vianna plays Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) and Brazilian funk. The album also has features heavy dose of rock. Vianna calls the album a “synthesis of who I was in the past two years and who I am now.” The title track recalls the fact that "the Fool" was a recurring card pulled during her trips to a tarot reader. The singer-songwriter’s first full-length album follows singles “Serei(a),” “Green Blues” and “Propia Defesa/In My Own Defense,” the latter of which won the Berklee College of Music’s Art of Music Production 2020 Contest. Vianna recorded the album at Tri-C’s Tommy Li Puma studios while finishing the recording arts program on a full scholarship. Admission to the Praxis Fiber Workshop show is free.