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Sometimes you have to leave the place you're from before you can truly appreciate it. That's what happened to musician Anastacia Azevedo.
She grew up in north-eastern Brazil. She moved to Germany 14 years ago. She hoped to make it as a singer there.
What she found in the process was a greater appreciation for the music of her native land.
The title track from Azevedo's latest CD is called 'Amanaiara' It's an ode to rain, which is something you don't get a lot of in Brazil's dry north-east.
The song refers to rain as an almost mythical force. It seems that when it does rain in north-eastern Brazil, it pours with a vengeance. It's a rain, sings Azevedo, "that kills the frogs".
Anastacia Azevedo moved to Germany with her partner Ze Eugenio. Together they set out to become musical ambassadors for Brazil, composing songs that reach back across the Atlantic. Many of the tracks on Azevedo's CD are based on traditional rhythms like samba or forro. But the results aren't exactly traditional.
Azevedo says she recently suffered a crisis when she realized she was losing some of her Brazilian roots in Germany. From the sound of her latest album, you can take the singer out of Brazil, but you can't take Brazil out of the singer.
Anasatacia Azevedo wraps it up for us today.
In Boston, I'm Marco Werman. 11/11/04 >> go there
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