About this Artist

Multi Grammy and Latin Grammy Awarded and Nominated Ivan Lins was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a complete musician and great songwriter, known by numerous recordings of his work worldwide, differentiated and at the same time refined and popular. Not coincidentally, he is one of the most recorded Brazilian artist living abroad.

Lins has already showed a differentiated harmonic construction in his songs. These characteristics that would make Ivan Lins became so respected among musicians worldwide.

His work has been renewed through the years, always bringing new musical without ever losing his trademark, his DNA, his originality. His songs were recorded by major artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, George Benson, Toots Thielemans, Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, Al Jarreu, Dionne Warwick, Take 6, Sting, Diana Krall, Chaka Khan, Barbra Streisand, Dianne Reeves, Michel Le Grand, Jorge Drexler, Till Bronner, Alejandro Sanz, Chucho Valdez, Jane Monheit and many others.

In 1981, the song "Dinorah, Dinorah" won a Grammy for Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording with George Benson. In 1982 "Velas" had two nominations and won the same award with the recording of Quincy Jones. In 1994, Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song) was nominate for Best Pop Performance from the great album Black on The Block by Quincy. And in 2004 Sting won the Grammy Award for best pop singer with "She Walks This Earth".

In 2005 he released the CD and DVD “Cantando Histórias”, which rescues big hits and earned him the Latin Grammy of “The Best Brazilian Record” and “Best Album of the Year”.

In 2009 won a Latin Grammy with his album "Ivan Lins & The Metropole Orchestra" with arrangements of Vince Mendoza.

In 2015, the album “América Brasil” earned him the Latin Grammy for “Best Brazilian Popular Music Album”.

In 2023, the praised work, nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album on Grammy Awards, called “My Heart Speaks”, recorded in Los Angelis and Tbilisi, Georgia, is released by the north american label, Resonance Records, with the participation of Dianne Reeves, Jane Monheit, Tawanda and The Symphonic Orchestra of Tblisi.

With more than 800 titles, Ivan Lins continues to make his songs inspired by his city and country, social issues and the different forms of love and beauty and brings with him genuinely Brazilian music.