Cape Verde is this small archipelago off the west coast of Africa blessed with huge musical diversity. It has always been a crossroad of cultures, a land shaped by arrivals and departures, trips and voyages. The people have a rich heritage fruit of the mixing of Portuguese, Europeans and Africans taken away as slaves during the triangular trade. This territory has developed a genuine musical culture result of the constant influences brought by the massive migrations towards Europe and the United States that happened in the last few decades. Carmen Souza was born in 1981 in Lisbon where she grew up nourished by both Portuguese and Cape Verdean cultures: Creole at home and Portuguese at school. Her music absorbs with great originality, spontaneity and elegance the many rhythms of Cape Verde (batuke, morna, cola djon...) as well as influences of funk, soul and Jazz. With two albums released to date, “Ess ê nha Cape Verde” in 2005 and “Verdade” in 2008, she has become, alongside Lura, Mayra Andrade and Sara Tavares, one of the most important figures of a generation of mixed-raced singers who despite not being born in Cape Verde are true ambassadors their ancestors’ culture.
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