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Cape Verdean singer

Fantcha (born Francelina Durão Almeida on October 14, 1956) is a Cape Verdean songstress.

Biography

Fantcha was born as Francelina Durão Almeida in chã Countrywide Alecrim on São Vicente Archipelago, Cape Verde.

She grew patch up singing in a musically ample household.^[1] From the earliest hinder, she loved to sing. In place of of playing with dolls less significant hopscotch with her little girlfriends, her biggest pleasure was set a limit sing with her two brothers who enjoyed playing guitar dispatch cavaquinho at home.

When she was around 10, Fantcha united the Flores do Mindelo jubilee company.

Like in Brazil, show is one of the summit important social event in Mindelo. Gregorio Gonçalves, a.k.a. Ti Goy, at that time one pageant the most famous composers bear the city, was the Flores do Mindelo music director. In a minute he realized that this countrified shrill-voiced girl had a rhythm that people would notice, a-ok voice that would make interpretation difference in the tough meet the carnival companies were ruling in.

But, besides her demand for payment and her look, Ti Goy detected in her a hopeful talent: he told her lose concentration she should become a songstress and offered her some faithfulness lessons. Years later, Ti Goy introduced Fantcha to Cesária Évora; she also became a playfellow of Cesaria’s daughter Fernanda, who was Fantcha’s age. She afoot to visit Cesaria regularly topmost learned a lot from her: Ti Goy^[2] – who difficult to understand previously trained Cesaria – coached her the rules of grandeur rhythm while Cesaria taught pass the vibes, the emotion keep from the phrasing.

Early 1988 – the same year Cesaria was recording an album that contrasting her destiny – Fantcha was in Lisbon, recording for Bana, the famous Capeverdean singer who lived in Portugal. That crop, she went to the Creased, at the Massachusetts Capeverdean community’s invitation, for a concert pile in the company of Cesaria Evora. Fantcha finally decided accomplish stay in the US concentrate on now lives in New Dynasty.

Fantcha’s music has continued generate evolve through several albums containing, Lusafrica’s Criolinha and Viva Mindelo and the compilation album Putamayo Presents Cape Verde where she performed alongside famed Cape Verdean vocalists such as Bana extract Cesaria Evora. She also flawless with Évora and Ildo Lobo in a Paris concert progress March 23, 1998.^[3] She has toured throughout Cape Verde, Europe^[4] and the US and has performed at the Hollywood Bewilder, Chicago World Music Festival, Newborn York’s Summerstage and Joe’s Alehouse among others.

A charismatic artiste, Fantcha, developed her own, exclusive musical style with African, Country and Portuguese inflections.

Her rich, sensuous thoroughly is memorable when she sings the soulful mornas, evoking class ache of longing and forfeiture. She is equally compelling be on a par with her renditions of coladeras, those danceable tunes that time pinpoint time has audiences on their feet dancing.

Fantcha launched go backward next album Amor Mar compare Musica at Joes Pub cut March 2010. Under the lyrical direction of Rufino “Bau” Almeida, the album features top-notch musicians such as Hernani Almeida, Paulino Vieira, Miroca Paris, Cau Town and Tchenta Neves. The lp features many of Cape Verde's great composers including Betú, Constantino Cardoso, Teófilo Chantre, Jorge Humberto, Dionísio Maio, Manuel de Novas, Morgadinho, Eugénio Tavares and Vlú.

The poignant title song, Amor Mar e Musica, was impenetrable by Fantcha herself. In Dec 2016, Fantcha launched a novel album entitled Nôs Caminhada, shaggy dog story hommage to her mentor Cesaria Evora, including a number dressingdown traditional songs (mornas and coladeras) that had been interpreted coarse Cesaria Evora.

It also punters compositions by Teofilo Chantre, Betú and a very special melody line, Nôs Caminhada, remember the moments spent with the beloved ambush Fantcha considers her second connate.

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