Pedro Jóia

Pedro Jóia (born 30 May 1970 in Liège, Belgium) is a Portuguese guitarist, composer, and musical director.

At fourteen he entered in the Conservatório Nacional de Música and two years later began to study flamenco guitar with Paco Peña, Gerardo Núñez and Manolo Sanlúcar.

[4][5][6][7][8][9] Pedro has regularly composed for theatre, cinema and has released six CDs under his own name.

For the following five years he lived in Brazil and played regularly with Ney Matogrosso,[11][12] Yamandú Costa[13] and Gilberto Gil among many others.

[14] In 2008 he received the Prémio Carlos Paredes award for his album 'À Espera de Armandinho'.