[2] In 1990 she launched the LP "Outra Luz" ("Another Light"),[2] and she began performing in cities like São Paulo, Florianópolis, and Porto Alegre and participating in tv shows.

[1] It was in this year that she recorded a track in the songbook of Dorival Caymmi, and she also adopted the name Duncan, the maiden name of her mother.

In 1994, she launched her first CD, Zélia Duncan, and two years later she recorded Intimidade (Intimacy), which made her spend a season in Europe and Japan.

[2] In 2006, Duncan was invited to join the tour of the psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes, replacing Rita Lee as the vocalist.

The performance was part of the series Historical Encounters, with the Jazz Sinfônica Orchestra and had all the care of distancing and other sanitary protocols.