Cape Verdean chanteuse Maria de Barros invites us into her culture’s joyful musical tradition. She sings about the beauty of Cabo Verde and a longing for the island, and her songs are filled with stories of love and romance. "The stories told in the songs are poetic description of real and profound human emotions that are not just felt by Cabo Verdeans, but by the rest of the world," she says.
Through song, Maria de Barros expresses the important influence that French culture and music had on her own life growing up in West Africa. In addition to the African and Latin flavored coladeiras and bluesy mornas common to her culture’s music, de Barros introduces another intoxicating rhythm, the funana, which is undeniably danceable and joyful. “This rhythm is driven by an instrument called a ferro, which is simply a piece of metal played with a knife,” she explains.
Five-time Grammy® nominee Cesaria Evora, the “barefoot diva”, helped to place the music of Cabo Verde on U.S. audiences’ musical map. Evora’s ongoing encouragement led to her god-daughter fashioning her own lively and vivacious interpretation of Cabo Verdean music. Together, Evora — the Queen of the Mornas — and Maria de Barros — Queen of the Coladeiras — paint a complete musical picture of this tradition-rich land.
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