Regina Ribeiro is a vocalist, author, dancer, choreographer, teacher and producer. Born in São Paulo, she is a multilingual artist with professional training and artistic experience in Brazil, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Cameroon. Before  dedicating herself entirely to art, Regina Ribeiro studied advertising and marketing and worked in the area for 4 years at Editora Abril and at the MPM Casablanca agency in São Paulo.

In 1981, she was invited to represent Brazil at the Lowell Summer Festival, Ma, United States. During this period outside Brazil, the artist felt intensely inspired and motivated to deepen her knowledge of the art of other peoples and cultures, as well as her own art.

In 1982, he traveled through France, Italy and Switzerland, where he performed several artistic presentations and taught courses and workshops. In the same year, she was invited to teach at the Institut Git le  Coeur, in Paris, where he lived for a year. During this period, the ever-present relationship  The relationship between the artist and Africa deepened with the beginning of her research on the History of Black Peoples and Nations, highlighted in the work of the Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop.

In 1983 he settled in Switzerland, where he taught for 12 years at the University of Bern. Driven by the continuous research of her art, Regina Ribeiro was in Africa for the first time in 1987, as a guest artist for a study of Traditional Dances from West Africa, in Côte d'Ivoire. The renowned dance school Alvin Ailey, in New York, is also part of the itineraries for her continuous training in Katherine Dunham's technique.

Singing has always had a special place in choreographic creations, however it only became relevant in Regina Ribeiro's career from 1993 onwards. Within this aspect, she worked with the band Atcha Makossa and Isaac Bias, among others. In 1997, she began her solo career as a singer and in 2000 she debuted her first project with authorial compositions, under the musical direction of Glaucus Linx. From 1997 to 2002, Regina Ribeiro joined the jazz choir at the Conservatory of Biel in Switzerland, studied popular singing with teacher Marianna Polistenna, jazz with teacher Guitte Christensen and classical technique with teacher Vandete do Carmo.

Among the artists, projects and organizations with whom Regina Ribeiro has collaborated are: Letieres Leite, Jorge Watutzi, Zé Eduardo Nazário, Maria José Tavares, Plinio Rigon, Billy Summers, Jon Otis, Paco Yê, Othella Dallas, Susanne Daeppen Modern Dance Project, Talib Kibway, Teddy Bärlocher, Noel Ekwabi, Glaucus Linx, Earth Crossing World Music Festival Japan, Impuls Tanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Expo 02, Jazz Parade Festival Freiburg, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Afro Pfingster Festival Winterthur in Switzerland, Festival d 'Avignon, Café Concert New Morning, TV 5 in Paris, Centro Cultural, Sesc Consolação and Sesc Itaquera, São Paulo.

In 2012, Regina Ribeiro was invited by the NGO ARK Jammers to visit Cameroon, her country of origin. On that occasion, he participated in the African Ancestry Reconnection project, at the Healing Concert event at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé. In 2013, the artist returned to Cameroon, this time for a 5-month stay at the invitation of the AfricAvenir Foundation in Douala.

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In 2014 and 2015 he recorded with the Cameroonian group Les Jumeaux de Masao, in Paris. At the end of 2015, Projeto Relationships debuted in Brazil with a show at Sesc, in São Paulo.  

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