Badi Assad

Brazilian-based singer-guitarist Badi Assad lived in Sarasota for a while in the Nineties, but this concert marks her first official one in Florida since she decided to radically change her musical style, switching from a classical/experimental format to a more jazz-inflected pop style. "I started out playing chorinho and then began my studies playing classical music," she says. "Somewhere down the road, I realized that I was just following in my brothers' footsteps, and that I had to find my own voice as a singer as well."

Mmm, that Assad, she's a Badi. Shut your mouth!

Details

Badi Assad performs at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, October 15, at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami. Tickets cost $20. Call 305-949-6722 or visit www.carnivalcenter.org for tickets.

Related Content

• Weird Wives and Luma Junger Square Off Against Alligator Alley, Wise Wizards, and Gulf Coast Fauna (Plus Free Music!)
  February 7, 2012
• FDLE Paid Employees to Get Drunk on Whiskey for Possibly Worthless Study
  January 19, 2012
• Homeless Florida Man Decapitates Another Over Spilled Food
  January 4, 2012
• Sarasota Youth Football Team's Beatdown of Referee Caught on Video
  September 1, 2011
• George W. Bush Wishes Jeb Would Have Ran for President This Year
  January 12, 2012

More About

• Badi Assad
• Sarasota
• Ernest Barteldes
• Classical Music

Her seventh album, Wonderland, is only her second to be recorded in Brazil, to where she returned after a long period in the U.S. "It is a completely different experience to record in your own country, with Brazilian musicians and the Portuguese language all around you," Assad explains. — Ernest Barteldes