Lu Horta is a singer and a composer. She graduated in 1993 at the School of Music at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil. Since then she has been developing projects in the music scene in Sao Paulo. In 1995 she participated in the recording of the CD “O Catarina” by composer Luis Gayotto and in the recording of a CD by the band “Jambêndola” where she sang and created some of its vocal arrangements. During that year she created the quartet “Legítimas so as baianas” performing as the lead singer. In 1996 she became part of the vocal and body percussion group “Barbatuques” with whom she still performs today. In 1999 Lu was invited to participate in Luis Gayotto’s second CD “Viver e o Amor na Cidade Grande” and she also sang in Remo Pellegrini’s CD. In the same year she composed the song “Fiorina” for the play Anunciação which won the Panamco award for the best children play in 2000. “Fiorina” won the “Demo of the month Senheiser” award from the site www.microfones.com.br. In 2002 she launched with “Barbatuques” their first CD named “Corpo do Som”. They have been performing in Rio and Sao Paulo and in January/2003 they were invited to perform in Paris and Cannes. In 2002 she finished recording her first solo CD with her own compositions. She has shown her new work as part of project Casa da Prata at Sesc Pompeia, an important cultural center in Sao Paulo. Lu Horta has been studying vocal technique for 10 years with Mauricio Martinazzo. In 1998 she completed the “Audio Vocal” course at Institute Tomatis in Paris. In 2002 she attended both courses “A Arte do Canto e o Desenvolvimento Individual” (The art of singing and the individual development) and “O Ouvido e a Arte do Canto” (The ear and the art of singing) taught by Thomas Adam at the Rudolf Steiner Cultural Center in Sao Paulo. She studied vocal and corporal percussion with Stênio Mendes and Fernando Barboza and rhythmic with Jose Eduardo Gramani. She works as a music teacher and develops workshops on music perception and vocal and body percussion.