Brazilian Girls Sabina meets the public eye as the frontwoman in her band
Brazilian Girls. She stands out because of her unique contralto voice and her signature multilingual storytelling. She has also been called 'enigmatic' and is noted for her sense of fashion, wearing theatrical outfits often made by herself or by her fashion-designer friends
threeasfour,
Carolina K, and Gemma Kahng. In 2008 Sabina composed and sang the songs "Bring Back the Love" and "Os Novos Yorkinos" for
Bebel Gilberto's album
Momento. In 2009, Brazilian Girls were nominated for a
Grammy Award in the
Best Dance/Electronic Album category, but lost out to the band
Daft Punk. In 2009 Sabina and Brazilian Girls member Didi Gutman wrote and produced singer
Baaba Maal's album
Television, released on
Palm Pictures. The band disbanded in 2019.
Solo career Her solo record, called
Toujours, was released on February 18, 2014, on
Bar None Records and
Naim Edge, UK on March 23, 2014. Sabina's album was welcomed with overwhelmingly positive reviews.
The Boston Globe reviewer Rebecca Ostriker calls Sabina "a goddess".
Jon Pareles from
The New York Times describes her as nonchalant, elusive, sophisticated and resolutely hedonistic. Allmusic says "Toujours is an album of true originality, executed with humor, warmth, and spark, and captivating from beginning to end."
Q magazine calls it "A thoughtful solo debut",
Uncut calls Sabina "A Dietrich pour nos jours". In 2009 Sciubba records the song 'Silence is golden' on
Forro in the Dark's album 'Light a candle'. In 2011, Sciubba sings at the
Lincoln Center, premiering 'Goldkind', a musical fairytale composed by Sciubba and
Anthony Korf, accompanied by
Riverside Symphony. She also composes and sings on
Pretty Good Dance Moves's 2012 album
Limo. On the collaboration project with
Big Gigantic in 2012, she appears on the track "Love Letters". In 2019, Sciubba released a single called "I Know you too well", featured in the TV series
Baskets with Zach Galifianakis, in which she acted in three seasons. It was her first solo work after five years. In 2020 Sciubba releases her second solo record Force Majeure On February 13, 2023, Sabina releases the first single "Adam" of her third solo work "Sleeping Dragon" Then a second single "Paris Tropical" weeks later. The album
Sleeping dragon was released on June 23, 2023.
Performance art Since the beginnings with her band
Brazilian Girls, Sciubba has experimented with theatricals and stage costumes expressing political comments and a dry sense of humour which established her as a "agente provocatrice" of the electronica scene.
Force Majeure On January 25, 2020, Sciubba premiered her visionary theatrical project "Force Majeure", a crossover between electronic and baroque music, performance, projection, stage art, in Teatro della compagnia in Florence, Italy, alongside 7 musicians, most notably her shadow (alias Daelen Cory) and a 20 piece children's choir. Her second solo record "Force Majeure", due for release on March 21, 2020, was pushed back because of the
COVID-19 emergency, but Sciubba decided to self-release the record on her website, stating: "I named the project Force Majeure in 2018. The fact that the release date happened to be on the day of a major event of Force Majeure, made me feel like it was the perfect time to release it regardless, at least to my closest fans". One month after the premiere,
COVID lockdowns stopped the world in its tracks.
Film music Sabina has composed musical scores for a number of films and television, including ''
The Party's Over (with Philip Seymour Hoffman), Forty Shades of Blue, and Jimmy in Saigon'', among others.
Acting From 2016 until 2019, Sciubba played a recurring character, Penelope, alongside
Zach Galifianakis in the television comedy series
Baskets on
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