Andrea Motis

Andrea Motis (born 9 May 1995) is a Spanish jazz trumpeter, singer, sax player and songwriter who sings in Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Biography
From the age of seven, Motis developed musically at the Municipal School of Music of Sant Andreu (Barcelona). In 2007, at twelve, she began to play in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, led by teacher and musician Joan Chamorro.

In 2010, at the age of fifteen, she recorded an album of jazz standards, Joan Chamorro Presents Andrea Motis., featuring Bobby Gordon.

In 2012, she went on to record a second album, Feeling Good. John Fordham reviewed it when Motis played at PizzaExpress Jazz Club in 2014, stating "Motis has the kind of pearly, barely exhaled voice, paced with canny improv swerves and casual timing, from which jazz celebs are made."

From 1–4 November 2015, Motis (tp, sax, voc), Chamorro (b, ts) and Josep Traver (g) played as the opening act of Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club at their "Adiós"-tour concerts in Boston and New York. In these concerts, Omara Portuondo sang Dos Gardenias as an encore, together with Motis.

Motis made her major label debut with Emotional Dance (Impulse!, 2017). In 2019, Do outro lado do azul followed with Brasilian songs and compositions of her own. During Yo-Yo Ma's world tournee The Bach Project, he started the Barcelona project day on 25 September 2019, with Motis in a public park. They performed a duet on El cant dels ocells, a catalonian folk song which has come to world-wide prominence by Pau Casals (Cello). Another version of this duet has been published on Yo-Yo Ma's album Notes For The Future.

2021, Motis, Mike Mossman and WDR Big Band Cologne produced Colors & Shadows. Loopholes (2022) is an album of the namesake quintet which Motis co-leads with her husband Christoph Mallinger, an Austrian jazz violinist.

Private life
In October, 2020, Motis announced the birth of a boy.

Discography

 * Joan Chamorro presenta Andrea Motis (Temps, 2010)
 * Motis Chamorro Quintet Live at Jamboree featuring Scott Hamilton (Swit, 2013)
 * Live at Casa Fuster (2014)
 * Feeling Good with Joan Chamorro (Temps, 2012; Whaling City Sound, 2015)
 * Coses Que Es Diuen Però Que No Es Fan, NewCat, Andrea Motis Joan Chamorro (DiscMedi, 2015)
 * Motis Chamorro Big Band Live (2015)
 * Joan Chamorro presenta La magia de la veu (Jazz to Jazz, 2015)
 * Live at Palau de la Música (Jazz to Jazz, 2015)
 * He's Funny That Way (Impulse!, 2016)
 * Joan Chamorro presenta La magia de la veu & jazz ensemble (Jazz to Jazz, 2016)
 * Emotional Dance (Impulse!, 2017)


 * Do Outro Lado Do Azul (Verve, 2019)
 * Loopholes (2022)

Collaborations

 * Marato de TV3 (TVC Disc, 2011)
 * Miles Tribute Big Band: Sketches of Catalonia (Mas i Mas, 2015)
 * Ramon Tort: ''Andrea Motis, La Trompeta Silenciosa - una historia sobre el triunfo de la sencillez (dvd 2019)
 * Sant Andreu Jazz Band: Jazzing 12 vol 2 (Temps Record, 2021)
 * Andrea Motis, WDR Big Band Cologne, Mike Mossman: Colors & shadows (Jazzline, 2021)
 * Yo-Yo Ma: Notes For The Future (Sony, 2021, Download and Streaming)
 * Joan Chamorro: Joan Chamorro Presenta's Big-Band (Jazz To Jazz, 2022)
 * Joan Chamorro: Remembering Toni Belenguer (Jazz To Jazz, 2022)