The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions Featuring Seu Jorge is an album by Brazilian musician Seu Jorge, released in 2005. It is a collection of David Bowie songs (plus one original, 'Team Zissou') Jorge recorded in Portuguese for the soundtrack to the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

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INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED BRAZILIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER/ACTOR

SEU JORGE

PERFORMS

THE LIFE AQUATIC – A TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE

ECCLES THEATER – THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7

Tickets on sale Friday, June 9 at 10am

Though Seu Jorge is one of Brazil’s most celebrated singers and actors, he is perhaps best known here in the U.S. for his role in Wes Anderson’s 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, in which Jorge reinterpreted a number of David Bowie’s biggest hits. The songs, performed in Portuguese and featuring Jorge solo on acoustic guitar, became something entirely unique. So much so that Bowie himself was moved to say, “Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs in Portuguese, I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.” Jorge will perform these songs, and those he recorded for the 2005 album The Life Aquatic – Studio Sessions featuring Seu Jorge, in his critically acclaimed live show The Life Aquatic – A Tribute to David Bowie, which will tour North American in June and September.

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 9 at 10am. Tickets available online at Live-at-the-Eccles.com, by phone at 801-355-ARTS and at the Eccles Theater Box Office (M-F 10a-6p and Sat 10a-2p). The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater is located at 131 Main Street in Salt Lake City.

The Life Aquatic – A Tribute to David Bowie will feature a set and costumes designed by Creative Directors Mariana Jorge and Danny Perez, both members of the original The Life Aquatic creative team. Jorge will perform on a stage reminiscent of the film set, with boat sails functioning as screens displaying images throughout the set. Yet even with a such a simple set up, the Los Angeles Times writes in a glowing review, Jorge brings what feels like “infinite detail and emotion to the songs.”

As a singer, Seu Jorge was part of the Brazilian band Farofa Carioca, writing most of the songs of their 1998 debut album Moro no Brasil. his first solo album was 2001’s Samba Esporte Fino, a pop album influenced by musicians iconic Brazilian artists Jorge Ben Jor, Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento, and released outside Brazil under the name Carolina in 2003. He followed up with the critically acclaimed 2005 album Cru (Raw), which The Guardian called “a magnificent record,” and which prompted Pitchfork to praise Jorge’s voice as “at once buttery, soulful, and fierce.” He since has gone on to release five studio albums and collaborate with the likes of Beck, Talib Kweli and even the fashion designer Rachel Roy.

As an actor, Jorge came to fame with his breakout performance as Knockout Ned in Fernando Meirelles critically acclaimed feature film City of God (2002). After his performance as the guitar strumming deckhand Pelé dos Santos in The Life Aquatic (2004), and the praise he received for his Bowie covers, Jorge released The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions, which, AllMusic wrote, “retains the original framing of the Bowie classics, while injecting a sunny island sweetness into their very core.”

Tickets for Seu Jorge – The Life Aquatic – A Tribute To David Bowie go on sale Friday, June 9 at at 10am. Tickets are on sale now online at Live-at-the-Eccles.com, by phone at 801-355-ARTS and at the Eccles Theater Box Office (M-F 10a-6p and Sat 10a-2p). The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater is located at 131 Main Street in Salt Lake City.

For press information contact Bruce Granath / [email protected] / 801-703-2055

Seu Jorge’s A Life Aquatic – A Tribute to David Bowie Newly Announced North American Dates

September 5	Phoenix, AZ	Van Buren
September 7	Salt Lake City, UT	Eccles Theater
September 8	Boulder, CO	Chautauqua Auditorium
September 9	Denver, CO	Ogden Theatre
September 11	Lawrence, KS	Liberty Hall
September 12	St. Louis, MO	The Pageant
September 14	Indianapolis, IN	Clowes Memorial Hall
September 15	Cincinnati, OH	Taft Ballroom
September 18	Royal Oak, MI	Royal Oak Music Theatre
September 19	Toronto, ON	Massey Hall
September 20	Montreal, QC	St. Denis Theatre
September 22	Northampton, MA	Calvin Theater
September 23	Burlington, VT	Flynn Center of the Performing Arts
September 24	Boston, MA	Boston Symphony Hall
September 25	Portland, ME	State Theatre Portland
September 26	New Haven, CT	College Street Music Hall
September 27	New York, NY	Beacon Theatre
September 29	Washington, DC	Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
October 6	Pensacola, FL	Vinyl Music Hall
October 7	Fort Lauderdale, FL	Au-Rene

Seu Jorge’s A Life Aquatic – A Tribute to David Bowie Previously Announced North American Dates