ELIDA ALMEIDA

As Cesaria Evora pinned Cape Verde on the vibrant map of planetary music, the small volcanic archipelago keeps on bursting with leading voice talents. Elida Almeida embodies this new generation, acclaimed in her own country as well as in Portugal, she is capable of melting her folk and modern suave melodies in the melting-pot of popular rhythms of the Island of Santiago. Batuque, funaná and morna are indeed invited to her sound banquet, a kind of islander blues of soft saudade fragrance exalted by this new pearl of the Cape Verdean music with her languid voice timbre of both deep and joyous tone.