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Artist: Sara Tavares
Website: www.myspace.com/saratavares
Track Name: Balance
Playback: flash
Download?: no

This comes by way of Mellow Monday / Tartan Podcast, and no she’s not Scottish.

Here is the twaddle from the website…

Sara Tavares was only 16 years old when she won two of Portugals most prestigious TV music contests. Born out second generation Cape Verdian immigrants, Sara grew up between two cultures. Initially known as a singer and composer of Gospel, Funk and Soul, she gradually incorporated more of her African music in her compositions. Her second album Mi Ma B, produced by Parisian Lokua Kanza, reached gold in her native Portugal and was a mix of African rhythms and melodic pop songs. After a long wait of five years, finally her new album Balanc is due in February 2006. In this record produced by Sara herself, she wrote and composed all the songs and played many of the instruments. Balanc is a beautiful record in which Sara shows to be a very talented contemporary singer/song writer, that has managed to combine in a subtle and honest way contemporary music with her African roots

What it doesn’t tell you is that she is really really good. Balance has is a very cool, jazzy feel with great vocals and is a very slick little number.

Here is the myspace video. (Yesterdays attempt seemed to work OK)

The other tracks are just as much fun.

Reccomended.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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