Telegraph (UK)
By: Peter Stanford

Ute Lemper has spent more of her 54 years outside her native Germany than inside, for the past two decades preferring New York as the family home she shares with her four children, because it is a city where “no one cares less where you are from”.

The award-winning singer, actress, dancer and musical adapter – words that inadequately convey a range that stretches from reinterpreting the songs of Kurt Weill and Edith Piaf, to starring in Chicago, Cabaret and a string of celebrated art-house films, as well as voicing Disney’s The Little Mermaid – has a complicated relationship with the land of her birth. “Don’t call me German,” she once rebuked an interviewer…

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Ute Lemper is a Grammy-nominated, internationally-acclaimed performer of screen and stage; a recording artist, composer and painter whose work sells in galleries around the world. She is also a mother-of-four….

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A contra alemã Ute Lemper fala de política, das novas formas de disseminar músicas e de Paulo Coelho,de quem adaptou livro e fez canções…

– Jotabê Medeiros

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“Da explosão mais alegre para a implosão mais triste.” É assim que Ute Lemper descreve o alcance do repertório que defende. De fato, a cantora alemã vai do amor à política, da melancolia à sensualidade, da conquista ao fracasso — ou de uma balada de Jacques Brel a uma canção épica de Bertolt Brecht e Kurt Weill— com rara desenvoltura. A força dessas contradições, encaminhadas na forma de um cabaré moderno, pode ser vista no dia 5 de agosto no Teatro Vermelhos, em Ilhabela, onde a cantora será acompanhada pela Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica….

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