Marion Campos-Gullotti was born in Paris, France, where she started her career in the mid ’80s. She played with numerous popular French vocalists, contemporary rock and fusion groups, and world beat music with African, Brazilian and Arabian performers Pierre Meige, Claude Lemesle, Maren Berg, Group Harem, Manuelle Campos, Malika Makouf Rasmussen, Rachid Barhi and Jauk Armal. With those artists, she toured the most important festivals and venues in France: Olympia, Francofolies, Paris Zenith, Petit Journal Montparnasse, Baisé Salé and Printemps de Bourges. Marion has also been a staff musician in several recording studios.
She later moved to the south of France, where she met the Brazilian vocalist Bia, with whom she toured European festivals and venues in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. She participated as musician and orchestrator on the CD “La Memoire du Vent,” which received the “Grand Prix de
l'Academie Charles Cros” (the equivalent of a U.S.Grammy Award). During this time, her music turned more toward jazz and improvised music, and she started composing.
After moving to Boston, Massachusetts, she finally recorded a CD of her own compositions, Dreamers’ Walk.The album featured the musicians she had been playing with: Jeff Galindo, Marty Ballou, Bob Gullotti, Bill Jones, Garth Stevenson and Miki Matsuki. Around that time, Marion created the Bright Street Trio, with Kenny Maurais and Ron Allman.
Throughout her musical career, Marion has always loved sharing her experience by teaching privately or in schools. She taught jazz ensemble at The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts, guitar ensemble at The International School of Boston in Cambridge, and created a special program for the mentally impaired, consisting of groundbreaking musical ensembles at the “Institut Medico-Educatif PRESENCE.”
In addition to her role as the guitarist in Dry Martini, Marion has been playing in several Boston-based bands: Cruzamente (CapeVerdean music), the duo Por Do Sol (Brazilian instrumental music “choro”). And in addition to playing both acoustic and electric guitar, she also plays cavaquinho, a kind of ukulele used in Portuguese, CapeVerdean and Brazilian music.
(To sample the diversity of Marion’s music, click here.)
She later moved to the south of France, where she met the Brazilian vocalist Bia, with whom she toured European festivals and venues in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. She participated as musician and orchestrator on the CD “La Memoire du Vent,” which received the “Grand Prix de
l'Academie Charles Cros” (the equivalent of a U.S.Grammy Award). During this time, her music turned more toward jazz and improvised music, and she started composing.
After moving to Boston, Massachusetts, she finally recorded a CD of her own compositions, Dreamers’ Walk.The album featured the musicians she had been playing with: Jeff Galindo, Marty Ballou, Bob Gullotti, Bill Jones, Garth Stevenson and Miki Matsuki. Around that time, Marion created the Bright Street Trio, with Kenny Maurais and Ron Allman.
Throughout her musical career, Marion has always loved sharing her experience by teaching privately or in schools. She taught jazz ensemble at The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts, guitar ensemble at The International School of Boston in Cambridge, and created a special program for the mentally impaired, consisting of groundbreaking musical ensembles at the “Institut Medico-Educatif PRESENCE.”
In addition to her role as the guitarist in Dry Martini, Marion has been playing in several Boston-based bands: Cruzamente (CapeVerdean music), the duo Por Do Sol (Brazilian instrumental music “choro”). And in addition to playing both acoustic and electric guitar, she also plays cavaquinho, a kind of ukulele used in Portuguese, CapeVerdean and Brazilian music.
(To sample the diversity of Marion’s music, click here.)