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Singer Mayra Andrade was contributing to the rebirth of Cape Verdean music at the tender age of 20. But she’s always been more than a neotraditional singer. Now 28 and living in Paris, she releases ...

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Closing her eyes and arching her neck backwards, the young Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade brings her palms to her collar bone and begins to beat out a rhythm from her home islands off the West ...

Seemingly coming out of nowhere in 2007, singer Mayra Andrade single handedly rebooted the prevailing stereotype of Cape Verdean music with her debut album, Navega (Sterns). Sunny and gorgeously ...

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Mayra Andrade has got to be one of the most international singers in the business. Her upbringing took in Cuba, Senegal and Germany, and her music is heavily influenced by Brazil and France (she lives ...

The title track of Mayra Andrade’s second CD starts with a light Brazilian bossa strum, and its first minute passes pleasantly enough. Then it reaches the chorus, and a patter of handclaps announces a ...

She's barely into her twenties, and yet Mayra Andrade has already made a big impact internationally. Her first London concert, supporting Angelique Kidjo at the Barbican earlier this autumn, had ...

Seemingly coming out of nowhere in 2007, singer Mayra Andrade single handedly rebooted the prevailing stereotype of Cape Verdean music with her debut album, Navega (Sterns). Sunny and gorgeously ...