- artist:Carmen Souza Protegid Tour 2010/2011
- featured artist:CARMEN SOUZA
- release year:2010
- style(s):Jazz, Cape Verde
- country:Cape Verde
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Melo Music Productions
- label:Galileo MC (Germany & Spain)
- publisher:Galileo MC (Germany & Spain)
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In 2010 Galileo released, again, Carmen Souza second album VERDADE, this time with a new artwork.
This new edition entered the World Music Charts Europe in August 2010 on 12 position.
VERDADE PRESS REVIEWS:
5 STARS “Carmen Souza is a promise!"
JazzMagazine, NL
4 STARS “...Verdade (Truth) looks to deserve its name in each word and each note, mixing traditional rhythms of the archipelago with multiple influences, mainly from Jazz.” EXPRESSO, PT
4 STARS “Superb second album...All sung with a sensuous richness and wrapped up in luscious sound steeped in the melodic jazz of Ella or Hancock, Jarret or Zawinul. Blissful stuff.” ROCK N REEL MAGAZINE, UK
4 STARS CUTTING EDGE, BE
"Carmen Souza’s rich voice soothes as much as it swings.”TIME OUT CHICAGO, USA
“For decades, the music of Cape Verde was identified with a single talent, the penetrating vocalist Cesária Évora. But in recent years, this group of islands off the west coast of Senegal in Africa has begun exporting more high-quality artists...Now add 27-year-old Carmen Souza — born in Lisbon to Cape Verdean parents — to the list...Souza has a charismatic, playful streak, earthier and less arty but otherwise not unlike Marie Daulne of Zap Mama.” Minnpost, Minneapolis, USA
“...Incredible authenticity...” Inside World Music, USA
"Despite being less known than Mayra Andrade, Lura and Sara Tavares, a Cape Verdean born in Lisbon (and is so natural to say this) Carmen Souza deserves, in its own right, to integrate the leading group of the best new singers from Cape Verde." António Pires, TIME OUT LISBON, PT
“Carmen Souza’s music is not of the Lura or Sara Tavares variety really; rather, it’s an artful blend of traditional Cape Verdean rhythms with contemporary jazz and an intimate acoustic element.” Claudio Silva, Caipirinha Lounge, PT
"...her (Carmen Souza) strength lies mainly in her incredible possessed, swingende, colourful voice. What a talent!"Vrije Geluiden, NL
“...Her Cape Verde tradition is as soft and sensitive as a Laura Nyro ballad-it’s a smoky, dive bar Cape Verde of subtle progressions and syncopations, of Rickie Lee Jones harmonies and Diana Krall Crooning...”SONGLINES, UK
"Cultured singer who puts her own jazz spin on the music of her ancestral home, Cape Verde."THE TIMES, UK
“...distinctive fusion of classic, lilting Cape Verdean musical forms and Jazz."THE INDEPENDENT, UK
"Smouldering Cape Verdean afrobeat-tinged folk-jazz." Critic’s choice/Recomended, TIME OUT LONDON, UK
“What makes Carmen Souza sound unique is her compositions and her «Soul» Diva voice, that creates a kind of Contemporary Jazz based on the warmth and energy of the African melody."África Today Magazine, PT
“...music that is both insular and truly International..."International Community Voice, Ireland
“...voice of diva of jazz - Full, deep, adaptable to any note, Low or high” A Semana, Cape Verde
“…Those islands situated on the coast of Senegal have an artistic richness without limits and one of its last works is Carmen Souza one.” Icat.FM, SP
“Fascinating songs and music...Not to be missed.” Salsa, IT