Choro das 3 is a Brazilian instrumental group of three sisters and their father that first started to play as a band in 2003. Corina, 25, plays flute and piccolo. Lia, 22, plays 7-string guitar. Elisa, 19, plays mandolin, banjo, clarinet and piano. Their father, Eduardo, plays pandeiro (the Brazilian tambourine).
The Band has played for the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, or “Lula,” who praised the band’s music. And for more than 70,000 people at a Mass for Peace in Sao Paolo’s Morumbi Stadiumrand more than one million people at Reveillon, a public New Year’s Eve Party in Sao Paulo.
In 2008, Som Livre, a major Brazilian record company, released the first Choro das 3 CD, entitled Meu Brasil Brasileiro. Music critic reactions included, “... of the big surprises of Brazilian instrumental music," (Yahoo News), “interpretations of extreme creativity… a wonderful job of preservation and at the same time, renovation and modernization of Chor” (Toninho Spessoto, Blog Acordes), and, “seductive . . . true-to-form . . . very Brazilian,” (Tribuna da Imprensa),
