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Cape Verde's Lura: While her countrywoman Cesaria Evora perfects the European-inflected mornas and the faster- paced coladeras of Cape Verde, Lura is part of a new generation of musicians rediscovering the hidden traditions of her ancestral homeland. Evora hails from the Island of Sao Vicente in Cape Verde, an archipelago 300 miles west of Dakar, Senegal. Lura's music is inspired by the styles of Santiago - the most African of the islands, from which her father came. Those styles such as batuku and funana are featured on Lura's CD, Di Korpu ku Alma {Of Body and Soul}," released in May.
She writes about several topics on the CD: letters, love and immigration.
"In the poems and lyrics of Cape Verde, we speak a lot about immigration, explains Lura in publicity materials. "A lot of people move away to make a better living. We talk a lot about rain because there is so little rain. And we talk about food, because sometimes it is very difficult to get food. A lot of things you have to buy from outside; from Portugal, the U.S., Holland. And we talk about the relationship between parents and their children, because so many families are far apart. But the words talk about immigration in a symbolic way."
01/26/06
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