Bianca Rocha
A singer-songwriter from southern Brazil (Curitiba) based in Montreal since 2019: Bianca Rocha carries the new Brazilian popular music — MPB, bossa nova, samba and jazz — with a smile that warms northern winters.
Biography
Bianca Rocha has sung since the age of three, in a family of musicians from southern Brazil. A child prodigy of nativista music contests (the gaúcha music of the South), she was a four-time regional and national champion between 1992 and 1998, a semi-finalist on TV Record's talent show in 2003 and the revelation artist of the University Song Festival in 2005. With a music degree from Claretiano University in Curitiba and a specialization in early childhood music education, she also composed the soundtracks of four children's plays.
Arriving in Montreal in April 2019, she became a voice of the city's Brazilian and multicultural projects: Rodrigo Simões' Brazilian jazz, Diogo Ramos and Boogát's Eletrosamba, Guillaume Dion's Trans Portée, and vocal contributions to many Montreal albums. The Festival international Nuits d'Afrique welcomed her in 2019, and at nearly every edition since.
Her debut album, Fim de Mundo — arranged by Rodrigo Simões — blends jazz, Latin and Afro-Brazilian influences around a poem on the planet's fragile balance. A proud representative of the new MPB, she sings mostly in Portuguese, sometimes in French, for the environment and women's rights.
Stages and milestones
Since 2019 — Festival international Nuits d'Afrique — Montreal · Brazilian Days — Montreal; Jazz & Rhythms Festival — Mexico; Toronto Undergraduate Jazz Festival — Toronto
Upcoming dates
- Friday November 20, 2026 — Vitrine gratuite — Mundial Montréal 2026 — 14 h · Centre Sanaaq, Montréal (Canada) — Official page ↗
Public dates — collected from the artist's official channels on November 9, 2026.
Discography
Fim de Mundo (debut album) — including the single Fim do Mundo · Vocal contributions: Eletrosamba (Diogo Ramos and Boogát), Rodrigo Simões' Brazilian jazz, Trans Portée (Guillaume Dion)
Calendar
- Friday, November 20, 2026, 2:40 p.m. — Mundial Montréal (16th edition) — free official showcase, presented by EQLIVE (SiriusXM) and Women in Music Canada — Centre Sanaaq, Montreal
Show formats
- Voice and ukulele, in small formats or with a full band
- An MPB repertoire in Portuguese and French, for concerts and festivals
On video — their Mundial Montréal 2026 showcase
The official presentation video of Bianca Rocha for Mundial Montréal 2026: Friday, November 20, 2026 · 2:40 p.m. · Centre Sanaaq, Montreal. Video © Mundial Montréal — provided to Festival TV in the festival's official media kit.