giulia drummond
Edinburgh
Giulia Drummond is a singer-songwriter, percussionist, poet and actress creating
mystical atmospheres with her hauntingly beautiful voice and musical talent.
Her musical background is filled with charmed sonorities from all over the
world, from Afro-Brazilian chants to celtic music, visiting buddhist and hindu
mantras, hebrew, sephardic, gypsy music.
By exploring different music traditions, she also explores the languages,
singing in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian (different Italian
dialects), Gaelic, Latin, Hebrew, Haitian Criollo, Yoruba, Ladino, Romani,
Swedish…
In constant research for as many influences she can find, Giulia refers to her
practice as Magical Music. Her gigs are more like musical rituals, in which her
deep voice, accompanied by a shruti box and different kinds of drums are the
magical instruments, and songs take the audience to many enchanted landscapes.
Giulia’s first album balão de poemagia (meaning something like poemagic balloon)
was released in 2018.
Celebrated as a musician in Brazil through her teaching, monthly concerts of new
music and theatre performances, Giulia moved to Scotland in 2019 where she
quickly became known on the Scottish music scene in Edinburgh. She regularly
performs, collaborates and curates music sessions at the infamous Captains Bar
in Edinburgh and Leith Folk Club, collaborates with Flamenco Nova and is a
company musician of dance theatre company Slanjayvah Danza - performing
traditional Scottish, Gaelic and Spanish music and song in their award winning
show, 6 Feet, 3 Shoes.
In 2020 Giulia released her second album, vôo dos balões entre as brumas
(balloons flying in the mists).
Prior to Giulia’s artistic career she worked as a psychologist in the Museum of
Images of the Unconscious, an artistic sector within a big psychiatric complex
called Instituto Municipal Nise da Silveira. The museum is dedicated
specifically to the use of artistic expression as treatment in mental health.
