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Kavita Shah / Cape Verdean Blues @ Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon, Portugal
Event by: Kavita Shah Music
Location: São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Rua António Maria Cardoso 38, Lisboa
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Kavita Shah returns to Portugal after her great success in 2023 to present “Cape Verdean Blues” live at São Luiz.
Kavita Shah will present two shows on Friday December 20th (sold out!) and Saturday December 21st at São Luiz in the Mario Viegas room, after having been in our country last year in sold-out venues. The award-winning jazz vocalist and American composer will present her acclaimed album “Cape Verdean Blues”, in honor of her idol, Cesária Évora. Kavita will be accompanied on stage by Bau and Jorge Almeida on guitars and N’Du on percussion.
At the heart of this 12-track album is sodade, an idiomatic word with no equivalent in English, but which evokes a melancholy feeling of transience that permeates Cape Verde, its music and its free-spirited island population. As a daughter of diaspora herself, Shah states, “In this paradise in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, I found a sense of home that eluded me for most of life. Looking back, I realise that when I heard Cesária’s voice almost a decade ago, she was calling me down a path in search of my own sodade.”
A collaboration with renowned guitarist Bau (Cesária Évora, Tito Paris, Bius) and visionary percussionist Miroca Paris (Madonna, Cesária Évora), the album was released to great critical acclaim in September 2023 on the Folkalist Records label.
Kavita Shah will present two shows on Friday December 20th (sold out!) and Saturday December 21st at São Luiz in the Mario Viegas room, after having been in our country last year in sold-out venues. The award-winning jazz vocalist and American composer will present her acclaimed album “Cape Verdean Blues”, in honor of her idol, Cesária Évora. Kavita will be accompanied on stage by Bau and Jorge Almeida on guitars and N’Du on percussion.
At the heart of this 12-track album is sodade, an idiomatic word with no equivalent in English, but which evokes a melancholy feeling of transience that permeates Cape Verde, its music and its free-spirited island population. As a daughter of diaspora herself, Shah states, “In this paradise in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, I found a sense of home that eluded me for most of life. Looking back, I realise that when I heard Cesária’s voice almost a decade ago, she was calling me down a path in search of my own sodade.”
A collaboration with renowned guitarist Bau (Cesária Évora, Tito Paris, Bius) and visionary percussionist Miroca Paris (Madonna, Cesária Évora), the album was released to great critical acclaim in September 2023 on the Folkalist Records label.