Badi Assad

Badi Assad (pronounced Bah-Jee Ah-Sahj) is a Brazilian fingerstyle guitarist, vocalist, composer, and percussionist. Her music crisscrosses and integrates everything from Brazilian folk and MPB to classical, jazz, and world music traditions. She often employs prepared guitar techniques to create unusual timbres, and sings in English and Portuguese. She gained global renown with 1994's Solo for Chesky. Assad signed to Universal for 1998's Chameleon. In 2003, she released the collaborative Three Guitars with Larry Coryell and John Abercrombie and followed it with a sold-out worl...