Women of the World - Carmen Souza

WOW Festival showcase international and local women’s art and culture in a series of high profile and local performances, events and workshops.

CARMEN SOUZA

Lisbon born Cape Verdean songstress Carmen Souza has it all: excellent repertoire, a mesmerizing, expressive and versatile voice that glides effortlessly through a huge range of registers and a spellbinding, charismatic stage presence. Whether she is singing the plaintive morna (the Cape Verdean variation of the blues) or an exuberant batuco, Souza is always convincing owing to her swingy jazz sense of timing and her virtuoso voice full of nuances from the highest to the lowest notes she sings. Singing in her ancestors' Creole language and mixing traditional African and Cape Verde rhythms with contemporary jazz influences she creates a unique sound all of her own. In the last 3 years she has build an amazing reputation touring all over the world and collecting outstading reviews from both her live performances and CDs.

Carmen Souza singer-songwriter and musician have become a true world music force and one of Europe's most in-demand jazz singers.
 
"Her music has a deceptive simplicity, a rare clarity, derived from a unique mix of influences from her Cape Verdean background to jazz and modern soul creating this beautifully vibrant, largely acoustic, accessible hybrid. World soul music for the 21st century.” David Sylvian
 
"The poetic voice is as original as the musical one...The lyrics this Cape Verdean singer has written have a vivid, passionate energy; Backed with rippling accompaniments from a band blending Afro-Latin and contemporary jazz effects, she beats up a very unusual storm." The Independent

Carmen Souza www.carmensouza.com
Carmen Souza Video  http://www.youtube.com/carmensouzavideos

WOW Women of the World www.wow-womenoftheworld.com

Equator/ShivaNova will be launch their Festival WOW- Women Of the World Festival. This event provides opportunities for women to build networks and create partnerships that enable them to draw influences from other cultures and make global links.