Release Date: 29 July 2016
Label: LusAfrica
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3567254623623
Genres: World Music  Africa  
Release Date: 29 July 2016
Label: LusAfrica
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3567254623623
Genres: World Music  Africa  
Description
The voice on this album is among those I have believed in most strongly over the last few years. Ever since I heard Nha Vida, I have been telling anyone who cares to listen that the future of Cape Verdean music already has a name: Lura.
Some shadows shine with their own light. Those that form this song, for instance. A smoothly burning voice, at once sweet and caustic, providing us with reasons to live. A voice we want to hear on both joyful and sad occasions. A voice that soothes us and sweeps us away.
"Listen to Lura," I repeated endlessly, even to those sceptics who pointed out past misjudgements in the young singer's career. Nha Vida rescued the eponymous album (her first) released in Lisbon on the 31st July 1996, her 21st birthday. The following year, the track was chosen for the Onda Sonora Red Hot + Lisbon compilation. Lura's extraordinary voice shines with the dazzling sheen of newly-polished metal among the others on this record, which includes some of the greatest performers in the vast Portuguese-speaking world: Marisa Monte, Caetano Veloso, Teresa Salgueiro, Filipa Pais, Djavan and Bonga.
Tracklisting
Elida Almeida
Cesaria Evora
Cesaria Evora
Various Artists
Dino D'Santiago
Elida Almeida
Djénéba & Fousco
Boubacar Traore
Lura
Lura
Lura
Lura