Mayra Andrade & Roberto Fonseca, live in Marciac jazz festival 2019

To all fans of jazz and Blues Music, I want to convey all the sexuality of this style through my observations.

Mayra Andrade is a Cape Verdean singer who lives and records in Lisbon, Portugal. Andrade has been praised for her modern interpretation of the traditional Cape Verdean morna. Although she was born in Cuba, Andrade’s parents are both Cape Verdean, and she and her family returned to Cape Verde a few days after her birth. Andrade spent the first years of her life in Cape Verde, but because her father was a diplomat for the Cape Verdean government, she traveled extensively with her family and lived in many countries during her childhood. Hence, during her childhood, she lived in Senegal, Angola, and Germany.She is multilingual, but most of the lyrics of the songs on her albums are in her native Cape Verdean Crioulo language. Andrade often performed as a teenager, beginning voice lessons in Paris at age 17.
Awards and nominations
At age 16, Andrade won the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie.

Andrade won the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik(German Record Critics Award) for her album Navega in 2007 and for Stória, stória… in 2009.She also won the Newcomer award at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music2008.

In 2013, she was nominated in the music category of the 21st Femmes en Or prize.

In 2014, her album Lovely Difficult was nominated in France for the Victoires de la Musique Award, in the World Music category.

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