S a r a h L i n h a r e s

SARAH LINHARES' presence and sound resonates intergalactic beauty. This passionate Portuguese-Irish artist uniquely expresses an enticing blend of Soulful Electronic Future-Pop. MTL's 'Queen of Piu Piu' made a splash on her impressive debut record, Messages From The Future, released on Public Transit Recordings in late 2011. The record has just been nominated for Electronic Album of the Year by the GAMIQ. (Quebec's Indie Music Awards ) It was warmly received and Internationally supported by a multitude of stellar blogs, DJ's, and radio shows including GILLES PETERSON on BBC radio 1. Nu-Soul Magazine selected 'Other Side' as one of the editor's pick of Top 25 Tracks of 2011. 'Step Up' was featured on iTUNES JAPAN's mainpage as the 'single of the week' and was downloaded 52 000 times in one week!

Sarah was chosen by Portugal's ANTENA 3 RADIO to be a featured new talent on their annual compilation record NOVOS TALENTOS FNAC 2012 with her song 'Right Here' which was quickly dubbed a 'future classic' by renowned blog MUSICISMYSANCTUARY.COM. She performed in Portugal in Spring '12 and has collaborated with many stellar talents this year including Portugal's World Scratch Champion DJ RIDE. Their single 'Here Before' has already garnered over 62 000 views on Youtube.

Having begun her love affair with music at an early age through singing in her church choir, Sarah's eclectic musical style has been shaped by an obsession with electronic music, singing in a multitude of gospel choirs, performing and dancing to Afro-Brazilian Samba, touring and recording in Venezuela, and being selected to the RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY in 2007. Her performance highlights include: playing at POP Montreal, THE GOODS 10th Anniversary Blowout, opening for KING BRITT at Toronto's NuJazz Festival , Toronto's Manifesto Festival, opening for CARL CRAIG with Moonstarr at Mutek Festival, opening for MOUNT KIMBIE, FrancoFolies Festival with Vox Sambou, Nuits D'Afrique Festival with Estação Da Luz, and at the Acces D'Asie Festival with Parker Mah.

Sarah is currently completing a FACTOR supported EP with her new project F u t u r e F a l c o n coming to speakers near you soon. She is compiling a remix album of MFTF and has a handful of essential International collaborations are in the works.

The sky's the limit.