poet Vinicius de Moraes on tours throughout Latin America and Europe.[9] It was a period in which she recorded albums in Italy and the United States, during a season of concerts in New York, in 1977. In 1985, she was invited to participate in the Youth Festival, in Moscow, and the Yamaha Festival, in Japan, starting a solid career abroad that involves annual tours in several countries in Europe, Japan, the United States and Canada - a schedule that reconciles with performances in Brazil.[1] In 2004 she was awarded in the United States with the Lifetime Achievement International Press Award, given by the press to personalities who disseminate a positive image of their countries abroad. Three years earlier, for the same reason, she had received the key to the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania (USA). In 2015 she entered the list of honored artists by the Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA, having her work arranged and performed by graduates and presented in a large concert at the university's theater. At the time, she received honors from the Boston City Council and the Massachusetts State Assembly for her contribution to Brazilian culture and for promoting this culture internationally.[10] Joyce is also an educator, conducting workshops and master classes about her music and MPB at universities in several countries.[1] In the early 1990’s her work became increasingly popular among London DJ’s, which led to new audiences around the world in the Acid Jazz scene. It was in the debut edition of the Latin Grammy, in 2000, that Joyce Moreno received her first award nomination, in the category Best Brazilian Music CD, with the album Astronauta: Canções de Elis, a tribute to Elis Regina recorded in 1998, in New York. Four years later, it was the turn of the samba A Banda Maluca to appear among the candidates for the award for Best Song in the Portuguese Language. In 2005, the CD Banda Maluca was nominated in the Best Brazilian Popular Music Album category. The fourth nomination for the Latin Grammy, also for best Brazilian music CD, occurred in 2010, with her album Slow Music. As A Writer and Tv Personality A journalist graduated in the late 60s, in 1997 Joyce Moreno published the book Fotografei Você na Minha Rolleiflex, which brings together stories experienced by the artist behind the scenes of Brazilian popular music. [11] Due to the repercussion of this work,