She wanted to create a new sound, in her ancestor’s dialect Creole, that would mix traditional African and Cape Verde rhythms like Batuke, Morna, Cola djon with her jazz contemporary influences, in a totally intimate and acoustic vibe, different from the traditional festive environment of Cape Verdean sounds. Born in Lisbon but with Cape Verdean roots, Souza started singing professionally in a Lusophone Gospel Choir before joining producer and mentor Theo Pas'cal to produce her debut album 'Essênha Cabo Verde' in 2003. On Sunday 3rd August the Portuguese singer Carmen Souza performances reflect the influence of the works of Nine Simone, Billy Holliday, Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McCrae. The originality of the project has encouraged the Xàbia Jazz team to schedule a special screening of the award-winning documentary about the young band directed by Ramon Tort entitled "Kids and Music" on Friday 1st August at 10.30pm in the Riurau d'Arnauda, admission is free. There constantly-changing repertoire consists of some fifty themes including Dixieland, New Orleans, Swing, Big Band, Bebop, Funky and Vocal Jazz. Debuting in 2006, the Sant Andreu band has established itself as an internationally-recognised musical education project which has already recorded three albums and accumulated numerous awards. The band is led by saxophonist and bass player Joan Chamorro who featured in the festival in 2012 with one of his pupils Andrea Motis, a performance which achieved great accolade from both the audience and critics. Under the artistic direction of Kiko Berenguer, the festival kicks off on Saturday 2nd August with the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, considered the youngest in Europe with twenty musicians aged between 7 and 18 years old. The popular Xàbia Jazz music festival returns for its fourteenth edition over the first weekend of August with the familiar pattern of three evening performances, all at 10.30pm, on the special stage erected outdoors in the Plaza de la Constitución. Line-up for the 14th edition of the popular festival also features Carmen Souza and Christian Scott Sextet The pensive body of work was written, performed, arranged and partly produced by Solange herself and would go on to earn her solo career's first-ever Grammy win (Best R&B Performance, Cranes in the Sky) and number 1 Billboard Top 200 chart placement.EUROPE'S YOUNGEST BIG BAND WILL OPEN XÀBIA JAZZ 2014 From the heartfelt reflection of Cranes in the Sky to the empowering F.U.B.U., everything about A Seat at the Table was destined to shake up music’s business-as-usual. Examining some of her own first-hand experiences, the album would contain 12 tracks and 9 interludes that boldly called out Black feminism and racial injustice while simultaneously serving as a shameless stand in solidarity with all of the world’s underprivileged and oppressed groups. In 2016, the deeply personal A Seat at the Table was released, further defying R&B as we know it both musically and lyrically. Dreams released in 2008 followed by her True EP in 2012. Proudly commanding her unique sound, she continued to explore the possibilities of straying from safe/radio-friendly jams by blending Jazz, Funk, Electronica and R&B/Soul elements in Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Singer, songwriter, and composer Solange Knowles released her debut album Solo Star in 2002, bringing popularity to a new take on R&B that included Urban Contemporary elements.
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