Joana Alegre, singer of Indie Folk/Baroque Pop, soon realized that music and poetry would inevitably be part of her life.
She studied at Academia Duarte Costa, at the Hot Club de Portugal, and later at the Veneto Jazz Summer School, organized in Italy by the New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music (New York University). It followed a season in New York, where she learned and collaborated with great references of Contemporary Jazz.
His first collaboration as a vocalist was with the producer Joana de Melo, giving voice to his theme “Tribute to M”, which would reach fourth place in the 2008 Billboard World Songwriting Contest competition. Later, in 2010, he presented as lead singer and lyricist in “The Pulse”, with an album of the same name.
Since then, he has developed a series of partnerships and collaborations with renowned national jazz and pop musicians, including Mikkel Solnado with whom he would make the well-known duet “E Agora?” and that would produce her first album, “Joan & The White Harts”, a conceptual album with which she was a semi-finalist songwriter at the International Songwriting contest in 2016 and 2019.
She was a finalist for The Voice Portugal 2019/20, where she delighted the judges and the public with various themes, among which we can highlight her magical interpretation of “Jenny Of Oldstones”, a version that quickly surpassed half a million views on YouTube. She won third place with the public vote.
She recently composed and produced two themes for the movie “Big vs Small”, winner of SAL | Surf At Lisbon Film Fest, at Cinema São Jorge, a Finnish production about Joana Andrade, the only Portuguese surfer to challenge the giant waves of Nazaré.
Currently Joana Alegre is recording her second album of originals produced by Luísa Sobral (also producer of “Joana do Mar”). Emiliana Silva, Sara Fidalgo, Mário Delgado, Vicente Palma, Nuno Gonzalez and Carlos Miguel were also at the recording of the theme. The song also features the mixing and mastering of Rui Guerreiro.
