Less than a month after singing at the Music House, with the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos, Mayra Andrade now acts in Cascais, Tavira and Braga. Lovely Difficult is still the touchstone.
The performances (always at 22h) begin this Wednesday in Cascais, in the Auditorium Fernando Lopes Graça (Parque Palmela), followed Tavira in the Palace Park Gallery, and finally Braga at Theatro Circo. To Mayra Andrade, daughter of Cape Verdean parents but born in Cuba and with a life path that passed by Senegal, Angola, Germany and Paris (where he now lives), these shows are an extension of a cycle: “I started at <> tour Lovely Difficult in October and presented the very hard in Portugal a few days after he left. Came out in November and in early December I was in CCB in Lisbon and the Casa da Música in Porto submit it. However the show has evolved. What I am presenting now is the concert Lovely Difficult to a public who have not yet seen and with a degree of maturity that these nine months we have achieved. Also have songs from my first album, Navigate . “
Mayra’s international career, from Paris, has opened her doors to numerous stages and other musical universes . “Things have gone very well, because I wanted to maintain a profile tour A little different from what had previously done. Wanted to play at different festivals, in clubs, to meet a younger, alternative audience. And we have achieved a good balance between theaters, festivals, clubs. It was a choice I made at one point wanting to open a space for a more modern sound, more pop, with what I’ve been living for twelve years and who also wanted to hear in my music. “
This choice, she says, do not bring him any setback, however. “People have accepted this change as well and did not fail to recognize me, which was very important to me. It needed a thread, a red line that was the element of identification, and in my case this line is my voice, my way of singing, which has not changed. I got used to my audiences, including the public Cape Verde, to expect something of me always a bit on the margin, that is done in traditional music, this is my path. “
Your relationship with the Cape Verdean public not resented, despite Mayra live in Paris, where it contacts (and works in some cases) with musicians from various latitudes. “My biggest fear was that the Cape Verdean public, not to be so exposed to what influences me, estranhasse. Cape Verde is very open to the world but also very isolated country, where sometimes things come later. There is a very strong traditional scene, a scene zouk, hip-hop a little, but in terms of more alternative music, pop-rock or folk There are no references. With this record I end up creating a precedent and the people received him with enthusiasm, almost thanking me for being to bring something different. “
In his way of thinking about music, Mayra puts a seed of freedom: “I hope to encourage young people to make the music they want, which is more like they obviously respecting the identity of each.” Speaks of his country: “I think there is sometimes a certain traditionalism in Cabo green and my life, my travels, have prepared me to be willing to do a slightly different tune. Traditional music does not fail to thrill me like no other does, and I know perfectly well do traditional music. But for now my energy is mobilized to bring a different sound to Cape Verdean music. “
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