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Times Online, CD Review >>
Cesaria Evora dominates the music of Cape Verde so totally that it’s difficult for new artists to emerge from her shadow. But this album suggests that Lura could become a worthy successor, in much the same way that Mariza has recently taken up the mantle of Portugal’s undisputed queen of fado, Amalia Rodrigues.
Like Mariza, Lura is in her late twenties, lives in Lisbon and has a deep empathy with traditional music, in this case the styles of the former Portuguese colony off the coast of West Africa.
But Lura’s voice has a wonderfully elastic quality that puts her in command of a wide variety of styles, and she promises to be one of the breakthrough sensations when she appears at the Womad festival later this month. 07/02/05 >> go there
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