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Lucibela - Laço Umbilical (Bonus Version) '2019

Laço Umbilical (Bonus Version)
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Album name Laço Umbilical (Bonus Version)
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Date 2019
GenreWorld; Brazilian; Jazz
Play time 53:50 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 129; 341 MB
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Laço Umbilical (Bonus Version)

14 juin 2019
Lucibelas Laço Umbilical album isnow re-issued with a new titleTi Jon Poca
which had a great success at every concert.
Two tracks of the album have been reworked with some great additional featurings
Dona Ana with the renowned singer Bonga and Sai Fora (previously known
as“Mal Amadu”) with new raï inspirations added by the talented
Sofiane Saidi.

Biography
Lucibela is a smile; a fresh breeze ruffling the bougainvillea blooms and wave
tops. The young Cabo-Verdean was born in 1986 on São Nicolau, one of the
Barlavento islands – the ‘windward’ isles to the north of
the Sahel archipelago. Now she has made her first album, Laço umbilical, the
cord that links the singer to her land. Over its thirteen tracks,
Lucibela-the-voice-of-gold explores the issues involved: being a woman and a
Cabo-Verdean, living far away and loving with sensuality and grace. The secret
of Lucibela’s extraordinary vocal technique lies in her ability to
explore the deep register of Brazil’s great sambistas while adding a
thrilling vibrato.

Written by old masters such as Manuel de Novas and the generation that followed
(Jorge Humberto, Betu and so on), the songs from the traditional repertoire that
Lucibela champions span decades. Lucibela – like Elida Almeida who wrote
two of the tracks – belongs to a new, uninhibited generation. The two
young women take guitars, cavaquinho, saxophone, accordion and violin –
all the musical cornucopia of the islands – and blend them in the
civilizational cocktail shaker of tablet computers and television. Lucibela
projects an intriguing intensity, moving from pure emotion to audacious gambles
to firm opposition. Laço Umbilical’s arranger and musical director is
the ingenious acrobat Toy Vieira, Cesaria Evora’s associate, who has also
worked with Lura.

Lucibela grew up on São Vicente, whose port Mindelo is famous for a number of
reasons. The city was home to one of the first high schools in the Portuguese
colonies. Amilcar Cabral studied there before he became the father of
independence in 1975. Lucibela’s mother was a widow with a state pension.
Determined that her children would receive a good education, she moved to
Mindelo and enrolled them at the school.

Lucibela loves to sing and Mindelo is also a musical paradise thanks to the
Brazilian, Cuban, British and Portuguese sailors who sowed the seeds of morna
and coladera there. Those Creole fusion genres were introduced to the world by
one of their most illustrious performers: Cesaria Evora, a native of Mindelo.

Beneath Lucibela’s sweet, smiling exterior is a woman who has also
experienced life’s hardships. That inevitable involvement of fate in art
undoubtedly gifted the girl with her extremely feminine intuition. When she was
in the last year of high school, her mother died and left the family destitute.
To follow the dreams of her lost mother, Lucibela had to find a job that
paid… and the teenager had a talent: singing. She adored bossa nova, of
course, but also listened to Brazilian pop on the radio. So, she formed a group
with friends who, like her, preferred jazz and rock to traditional genres.

Lucibela shrewdly realized that she could earn a living by singing in the hotels
and bars of Mindelo, frequented by tourists who wanted to hear local songs. So,
she began to cover Cesaria Evora’s repertoire, beginning with Nutridinha,
a joyous, beautifully crafted song about bad girls.

Lucibela joined the Mindel Som band and left for the island of Sal, where she
re-energized the role of hotel singer, especially at the Morabeza. Then she was
offered a contract to sing on the sand-dune island of Boa Vista. She remembers
working hard and learning a lot about vocal technique, the repertoire and the
secrets of winning over audiences. In 2012, she went to live in her
country’s capital, Praia, where she encountered Kaku Alves, Cesaria
Evora’s guitarist for nearly 15 years. Lucibela sang at the Quintal da
Musica and took part in the television talent contests Talento Estrela and
Estrela Pop, reaching the final.

Keen to spend more time with her family and daughter, she recently moved to
Lisbon. Lucibela explains that to go on learning and not lose her touch, and
because singing is a sharing, candid, face-to-face experience, she still
performs in the squares and streets. When she mentions that, a blissful smile
gently lights up her face.

Tracklist:
01. Lucibela - Chica Di Nha Maninha (4:01)
02. Lucibela - Sodadi Casa (3:52)
03. Lucibela; Sofiane Saidi - Sai Fora (3:32)
04. Lucibela; Bonga - Dona Ana (4:16)
05. Lucibela - Stapora do Diabo (3:40)
06. Lucibela - Porto Novo Vila Crioula (4:11)
07. Lucibela - Laço Umbilical (4:10)
08. Lucibela - Profilaxia (3:28)
09. Lucibela - Mi e Dode Na Bô Cabo Verde (3:49)
10. Lucibela - Arku da Bedja (3:41)
11. Lucibela - Novo Olhar (4:08)
12. Lucibela - Sant Antôn (4:02)
13. Lucibela - Violeiro (3:24)
14. Lucibela - Ti Jon Poca (3:37)

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