BossaRica was born in 2009 when Marcelo Vieira (cello and voice), Raul Gomez (violin) and Ronaldo Cadeu (guitar), colleagues at the Louisiana State University School of Music, decided to join their knowledge and cultural backgrounds to form a trio that plays music from all of the three Americas. Their repertoire includes the best of Brazilian and Latin Music and Jazz, as well as other styles of popular and classical music.