- country:Cape Verde
- region:West Africa
- style(s):Afro, Jazz
- label:Escondida
- artist posted by:Way Art West
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Just as Mariza has breathed new life into Fado; a contemporary heir to Amalia Rodrigues, so Lura does to music from the land made famous by Cesaria Evora. Lura brings a street wise, urban sensuality infused with the passionate root of mother Africa to her music.
Riding on the tide Cape Verde's rediscovery of its African roots, this rising star is part of a new generation of musicians rediscovering the hidden traditions of her ancestral homeland. Her music is inspired by the styles of Santiago—the most African of the islands, styles such as funana and batuku, music that in the pas the Church and colonial government prohibited as it was considered too erotic.
Lura was dynamite: with a voice that modulated from a dreamy whisper to a ferocious shout, and with an act that was first comic, then sexually provocative, then rabble-rousing, she turned the Purcell Room into a stadium. When her international career gets going, this girl will fill stadiums.
- Michael Church The Independent
reviewing her London debut with Women of Cape Verde
Lura is touring to promote her new disc Body and Soul, remastered with new tracks and DVD. Released by Escondida on July 18th 2005.
Press reviews so far
a delight that deserves to be one of the hits of the summer **** Clive Davis Sunday Times, July 2005
..promises to be one of the breakthrough sensations.. **** Nigel Williamson The Times, July 2005