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Cape Verde: Ave Mayra

Friday, April 11th, 2008 @ 20:48 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Cape Verde
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Music
Languages:: Portuguese

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Cabo Verde: Ave Mayra...

Virgílio Brandão [pt] is one of the many bloggers celebrating today: Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade, at just 23, won the best newcomer in the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards. “Mayra Andrade, besides excellent artist, has showed some unusual wit and clarification for someone of her age - she acknowledges that the road is not paved on its own and says, fairly, that she is “part of a range of artists who have given Cape Verdean music the opportunity to renew itself and conquer new horizons.”

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