The singularity of Maria Reis’s voice within the landscape of contemporary Portuguese song has been recognized through awards from the Portuguese Society of Authors and Rádio Futura in the categories of best album and best popular music. At the heart of this journey lies Suspiro…, her latest album, which continues a cycle of growth between intimacy and risk, now marked by a lyrical and musical maturity that only experience and attentive listening can bring. Created in close collaboration with musician and producer Tomé Silva and recorded in the domestic intimacy of a bedroom, the album is an exercise in both restraint and openness: a breath that starts within and projects itself outward.

On stage, Suspiro… unfolds as a mosaic of emotional states and sonic landscapes: from intimate whispers to electrified energy, from hypnotic dance rhythms to the disarming honesty of pure lyricism. Maria Reis stages an expanded form of song that, while radically personal, calls forth collective recognition. Moving between acoustic and electric guitars, distilled rhythms, and suspended vocal harmonies, she creates songs that are at once confession and invitation, blending fragility with pop luminosity.

At BoCA Biennial, the concert goes beyond a mere album presentation: it affirms itself as the celebration of a new breath for song — a suspiro already heard as the breathing of the future.