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CD Review
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The Music Box, CD Review >>
-by Douglas Heselgrave
Ask any but the most ardent world beat fans about music from Cape Verde, and most of them likely will draw a blank. Those who can mention a performer invariably will evoke the name of Cesaria Evora, the barefoot matriarch and originator of Morna — a kind of soulful, Afro-Fado music. Because Evora has been in poor health in recent years — and consequently has cut back on her touring schedule — there has been a resurgence of young female singers from Cape Verde, all of whom are attempting to make a name for themselves on the world stage. The most notable of these is a stunning vocalist named Lura whose most recent album Di Korpa Ku Alma was a revelation to many critics. Despite the acclaim that Lura and other female artists from the former Portugese colony have received, they have made little effect outside of the fringes of music’s mainstream. Tcheka, a young man from Santiago, Cape Verde who wrote two of the songs on Lura’s In Love, hopes not only to change this but also to prove with the release of his excellent, first effort Nu Monda that women’s voices are not the only ones emanating from the Cape Verde-ian islands that are worth hearing.
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