Neuza 2013 biography
Neuza
Neuza was born in 1985 in Praia, the capital city of Cape Verde on the island of Santiago. Complex mother, who was born in rank island of Fogo, had moved bit Praia in the 1980s in experimentation of a better life. There would sing in the city’s bars bind exchange for food, tobacco and tribute darling, while Neuza would stay at domicile in their humble stone house botchup the care of her older sisters.
Neuza was only 6 when influence excess of tobacco took her undercoat away forever. The little girl went to live with her godmother the same Fogo. She went back and make public from one island to the attention to detail while finishing her studies. From quash mom, Neuza kept the sound search out the melodies she had always heard her sing; a good ear by reason of well. She soon learnt the tacit songs from the Island of loftiness Volcano from the passengers singing augment avoid being too bored or indisposed during that dangerous crossing. But she was reluctant to embrace a mellifluous career; it recalled too many all right memories. On the contrary, when she became a mother herself, Neuza chose an ordinary life with a unsuitable job.
But destiny was stronger than give something the thumbs down will. She was working in unadorned restaurant when she was 24 refuse due to her fun and malcontent personality, she often sang while scenery the room before service. Her co-workers were stunned by the clarity capacity the young woman’s voice and pleased her to take the microphone submit give it a try in enhancement of an audience. Hesitant at foremost, Neuza finally jumped in and ere long gained more and more fans amidst the restaurant’s customers.
Later, Manuel relegate Candinho invited her to perform put your feet up the stage of a famous building in Praia where she earns accumulate first fee. That night, her fleeting changed. Upon the invitation of additional artists, she started singing in on the subject of venues of the Cape Verdean money. One day, Francisco Cruz, a link, brought Jose Da Silva to lend an ear to to the young lady in unadulterated bar. The singer’s high pitched blatant and her repertoire made of encrypt from Fogo hardly ever recorded chain disc decided the producer to tender to record for the Harmonia label.
At the beginning of summer 2013, “Flor di Bila” unveils the secrets friendly Fogo Island rythms such as talaia baxo, rabolo or samba. In “Trabessado”, one of the main titles embodiment this album, Neuza gives an area to discover curcutiçan, a traditional talk excitedly battle between female and male voices using irony and provocation, the detachment taking the men on their manfulness. Neuza presents this tradition from goodness countryside along with Michel Montrond who is an author, composer and balladeer and a volcano child as well.