When Civello was seventeen, she sang in a band with Mario Raja, then Roberto Gatto. On a scholarship, she moved to Boston in 1994 to attend the Berklee College of Music. After graduating, she moved to New York City and met Russ Titelman, who produced her first album. The album was influenced by Brazilian music, with vocals by Daniel Jobim, the grandson of Antonio Carlos Jobim, and cover versions of “Outono” by Rosa Passos and “Caramel” by Suzanne Vega. Civello wrote one song, “Trouble”, with Burt Bacharach. She was accompanied by Steve Gadd, Larry Goldings, Jamey Haddad, Mike Mainieri, Rob Mounsey, Adam Rogers, and Ben Street.

The second album, The Space Between (Universal Jazz and Classics, 2007) was produced by Steve Addabbo and Pete Rende. It contained original songs and songs written with guitarist Jim Campilongo. The title of her third album, 7752 (Universal Jazz and Classics, 2010), produced by Andres Levin, refers to the distance in kilometers between New York and Rio de Janeiro. After a short visit to Daniel Jobim in Rio in 2008, collaborations with other artists encouraged her to explore Brazilian music. Brazilian singer Ana Carolina was the main collaborator on this album. Their first composition together, “Resta”, was on the soundtrack for the soap opera Passione, produced by GLOBO TV. The album included Jaques Morelenbaum, Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Marc Ribot, Mauro Refosco, and Anat Cohen.

In 2012 Civello took part in the Sanremo Festival with a song written with Diana Tejera which gave the title to her fourth album, Al Posto Del Mondo. The song “Problemi/Problemas” interpreted by Ana Carolina, on the soundtrack of the soap opera Fina Estampa, won the Premio Multishow prize for best song of 2012 in Brazil.