Brenda Hopkins Miranda is a Puerto Rican pianist, composer, improviser, arranger, producer, author and educator. Hopkins Miranda is characterized by her virtuosistic piano playing, as well as her ability to create emotional depth and nuance in her music.

Brenda's childhood home was always filled with sounds from all over the world. This led her to intuitively reject stylistic boundaries. Overall her music is a unique and powerful expression of her Puerto Rican heritage and her mastery of the jazz and classical idioms. Having grown up with the sounds that encompass Puerto Rican music, she has continued to expand by adding all sorts of multicultural influences to her sound.

A consummate traveler and beneficiary of a bilingual and bicultural environment, her sense of purpose has always been to genuinely exploit the piano as a personal extension and to convey melodious concepts with deft imagery and drama. Her compositions can be labeled as a musical autobiography or self-portrait. As a performer she is known for her expressive sensibilities, daring compositions, powerful grooves and daring improvisations.

Her sound is percussive, lush, melancholic and vibrant. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.