Tag: Elida Almeida

Elida Almeida: Gerasonobu

July 28, 2021

Elida Almeda’s fourth album is a story of Cape Verde, a portrait of the generation of artists following in the footsteps of the great diva Cesária Évora, and the saga of one singer-songwriter, raised by a single mother in a house without electricity, navigating between tradition and the global winds that have always swept her archipelago nation of sailors and migrants. If the scope of Gerasonobu (New Generation) is ambitious, the performance is stellar, rising on … More Elida Almeida: Gerasonobu

Elida Almeida: Kebrada

December 19, 2017

Elida Almeida describes her second album as an x-ray of Cape Verde, stories that look beneath the surface of hope and disillusion. At 24, she is a consummate singer-songwriter, blending her island homeland’s hallmark styles—funaná, morna, batuque and tabanka—with Latin energy and traces of R&B. Across 12 tracks, the album offers a current, delightfully applied, of life and art imitating one another. With the most mournful doses of reality, Almeida’s warm voice and gentle or upbeat rhythms … More Elida Almeida: Kebrada