Mayra Andrade

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Mayra Andrade (2009)
Mayra Andrade (2009)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Navega
  FR 124 05/20/2006 (8 weeks)
Stória, stória ...
  PT 3 22/2009 (8 weeks)
  FR 157 06/13/2009 (10 weeks)
Lovely Difficult
  PT 10 46/2013 (4 weeks)
  FR 98 11/23/2013 (4 weeks)
Manga
  PT 6th 07/2019 (25 weeks)
  FR 122 02/15/2019 (2 weeks)

Mayra Andrade (born February 13, 1985 in Havana , Cuba ) is a Cape Verdean singer.

Life

Born in Cuba to Cape Verdean parents, she moved to Cape Verde, then Senegal , Angola , Germany and finally Paris , France . On her debut album Navega, which won the German Record Critics' Prize in 2007 , she sings mainly in Cape Verdean Creole . Their music converts between Latin and jazz, she combines this Brazilian influences (Tunuka) with Flamenco (Lapidu na bo) intercepts with songs like Dispidida and Navega also the characteristic melancholy of traditional Cape Verdean music, which often with the Portuguese Fado is compared . In addition to Cesária Évora , Sara Tavares and Lura , Mayra Andrade is now one of the most famous singers of the small archipelago and former colony of Portugal . At the age of 16, she won the gold medal for best singer at the Jeux de la Francophonie, an international competition in Canada in 2001 . In 2005 she recorded a duet with Charles Aznavour .

In 2008, Mayra Andrade received the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in the Newcomer category for her album Navega and the Cubadisco International Award from the Cuban music industry .

In 2010 she made her debut as an actress in the short film Das Rauschen des Meeres directed by Ana R. Fernandes.

Mayra Andrade also recorded several times in Brazil, some parts of her albums Stória, stória ... (2009) and Lovely Difficult (2013). Especially since the album Manga (2018/2019) and collaborations such as the duet with the Brazilian rapper Tulio Dek 2018, her fame has increased in Brazil.

Discography

  • 2007: Navega
  • 2009: Stória, stória ...
  • 2010: Studio 105
  • 2013: Lovely Difficult
  • 2019: Manga

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Mayra Andrade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: Portugal - France
  2. ↑ Mayra Andrade in the BBC Music database
  3. ↑ Mayra Andrade - Afeto , official video clip of the single from the Manga album on YouTube with over 1.7 million views and a large number of Brazilian comments, accessed on May 25, 2019
  4. ↑ Tulio Dek feat. Mayra Andrade - Nós dois , video on YouTube, accessed May 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Andrade, Mayra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cape Verdean singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana