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Organization / Workplace
Brockton, Massachusetts
Occupation
City of Boston
About
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Brava, a tiny island of the archipelago Republic of Cape Verde. I learned to love the fine and sweet melody of morna, the Capeverdean national song, hearing my mother sing while removing flowery tassels from corn plants in preparation for harvest. My childhood musical experience would be complemented with the passionate serenades performed at our door steps by youthful neighbors, with the rhythm and chorus of the traditional celebrations of patron saints, and by walking behind musicians filling our streets with acoustic music in the mornings of New Year’s Day. Later on as a teenager I was introduced to the organ and guitar by enthusiastic amateur musicians
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