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Joyce
Biography
Joyce, in her international career, has recorded 21 solo discs and has had almost 300 recordings of her songs by some of the greatest names in Brazilian and international music, such as Flora Purim, Milton Nascimento, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Maria Bethânia, Elizeth Cardoso, Simone, Wallace Roney, and others. Her compositions have been featured in television, theater, and film soundtracks, such as The Player by Robert Altman. Touring internationally every year, she consolidated herself as an original artist with a distinctive voice and a personal compositional style predominantly celebrating her feminine condition.

Her first recording, as a member of a vocal group, was in 1964 on the LP Conjunto Sambacana. The first solo album came in 1968, Joyce (Philips). The album wasn't successful because it already had Joyce's pioneering trademark, the woman as subject sung in the first-person, and that was a difficult thing to swallow back then. She recorded two albums for that label (the next being Encontro Marcado, 1969), always helped by extremely competent arrangers Dori Caymmi, Gaya, and Luiz Eça, but the consolidation of her musical style would only come later. In 1970, she joined the group A Tribo, which had important musicians like Nelson Ângelo, Toninho Horta, Novelli, and Naná Vasconcelos (later replaced by drummer Nenê).