The daughter of a saxophonist and granddaughter of a conductor, her music career first showed promise in 1985, when she earned a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music as well as their Sarah Vaughan Award. Cecato's first album as bandleader, a duo outing with Italian guitarist Stefano Scutari called Our Favorite Songs, arrived seven years later. In 1994, she contributed to the compilation Music of the World, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. Her first album to be released in Brazil, Constelário, followed in 2001, and was produced by Júnior Aguiar, featured guests such as Brazilian jazz guitarist Romero Lubambo, and garnered a Latin Grammy nomination. Lubambo appeared with Cecato once more in 2003 for a live recording, and in the following years she kept a busy schedule with festival appearances and art exhibits in virtually every corner of the globe.

Discography (as a leader): 1992, Our FavoriteSongs; 1999, pele; 2001, Constelário; 2002, Balan-Balancing NewBossa; 2003, Lica Cecato & Romero Lubambo Live in Europe; 2005,Pimenta Rosa;2008, Lica Cecato & Paulo Gomes Live at the Brazilian Embassyin Tokyo; 2009 Gingabytes, 2010Copacabana. Discography(collaborations): 1994, Music of the World, released for the 50thAnniversary celebration of the United Nations; 2000, voices@stadtgarten; 2003, Ojala que escuche!;2004, Going Down Swinging 20Australia, Project Z, Spoken Word CD; 2006, Going Down Swinging 22Australia, Project Z; 2007, Celso Pixinga Bossa Jazz, with owncomposition: "No Good-Bye"; 2008, Francisco, Forró eFrevo, Chico Cesar, playing theremin & singing on "Eletrônica"

Concerts | Performances

2013 Jazz Duo, Carlo Morena & Lica Cecato, Verona, Italia | B&B Milano

2012 Lica Cecato & Carlo Morena @ Memo’s Milano | BrazilianDay Stockholm | Jazz in July, Semoljan, Perelik Jazz Stage, Bulgaria | inVENTOal Festival Collisioni con Paolo Maria Noseda, Barolo | Solo @ CitéInternationale des Arts, Paris | Centrale Montemartini LICA CECATO SoloChitarra e Voce | Primavera Latinoamericana ROMA | JazzNL Gateway to GlobalJazz with Dutch Band and de Uitdagingthe Challenge Thijs Borsten musical match with Italian trumpet player LucaAquino in Amersfoort, Holland | Jazz&Blues Festival Rio das Ostras Brasil

2011 Exposição individual na Galerie Koppelmann, Köln |GALLERIE AIGUILLAGES, A l'occasion de l'ouverture del'exposition du photograph/musicien Jean-Marc Volta, une interventionmusicale : Lica Cecato (voix) et L’Ensemble des Percussions de l’OrchestreNational de France, Florent Jodelet, Emmanuel Curt, François Desforges, GillesRancitelli présente une partie du répertoire de Villa-Lobos, joué à RadioFrance en 2009, avec un arrangement original et inédit, faite d'une voix etquatre percussions symphoniques. CAFEOTHEQUE Paris, solo, guitar et voix. WDR BIG BAND Funkhaus and Dortmund Domicil Manfred Schoofzum 75, Germany (including Manfred Schoof’s original Big Band arrangements forLica Cecato’s Maresias and Copacabana compositions) Exhibition &Installation: Kunstwerk-Nippes, FLOR DA BOCA himmelhautmundblume, Köln,Germany

2010 IDEOGRAMAS, exposiçãoindividual no Largo das Artes, Rio, |SYBABELLIA | André Vallias, LicaCecato | participação: Ale Cecato (laptop, percussão) | Oi Futuro | Rio deJaneiro

2009 Exposição Individual na Cité Internationale des Arts,Paris| CIDADECITÉ RI(O)PA(RI)S Cité des Arts | Paris | Lica Cecato concepção, vocais, performance | FlorentJodelet concepção, percussão, performance | Philippe Daoprocessamento em tempo real de imagens e sons | LIVE @ NEW MORNING | Paris | releasedo cd GINGABYTES

2008 ENSAIOS, exposição coletiva no Largo das Artes, Rio|ERRATICA / POEMA AO VIVO 2008, CCBB S.Paulo para a revista web depoesia visual ERRATICA

2007 ERRATICA / POEMA AO VIVO, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, para arevista web de poesia visual ERRATICA | PEDRALMA SESC PINHEIROSPerformance criada para a artista Denise Milan e sua obra-instalação: OPERA DASPEDRAS. | Lica Cecato: Conceito, Theremin, Guit, Voc | DJ Dodo: Laptop, Perc |Ale Cecato: Guit, Mouth Harmonic

2004 PROJECT Z Multilingual performance in Melbourne,Writer’s Festival

2003 SONGBOOK Performance para o opening da exposição LAMIRADA, DAROS LATIN AMERICA, Zurich | Lica Cecato Conceito, Voc,Produção | Michael Heupel Conceito, Contrabass, Sub-Contrabass Flutes

2001 CALEIDOCOSMOS MAM (Museum of Modern Art), Rio deJaneiro| Espetáculo Multimedia, onde escultura contemporânea (Iole de Freitas), música (Vania Dantas Leite e Lica Cecato), poesia, dança (Gisela MariaMoreau), se entrelaçam.