Cape Verdean singer Anicio Rodriguez visited Lisbon and presented his music in a concert at B.Leza.
Born in Santo Antao but living in Mindelo, on the neighboring island of Sao Vicente, at the age of five he played his first “guitar” chords. The brothers played the guitar, and the mother and sisters sang in the choir. Anisio sang this or that psalm in the church.
In Santo Antao, together with friends, he began his adventure with the group MIx Cultura. “We were lucky with this group, in 2006 we came to Portugal to participate in the Sete Sois Sete Luas festival. But we also came to Lisbon to perform on the old B.Leza,” recalls the Cape Verdean singer, for whom this return to Lisbon has a special meaning.
The music of Mix Cultura was greatly influenced by jazz. “At that time we dared to say that it was jazz from Santo Antao,” he says in a joking tone, “it was different music.”
When he moved to San Vicente he met other artists with different sounds in traditional music. And in Mindelo Carnival has a wonderful tradition. “It is very powerful, it touches people, they even say that Carnival is in their blood. I didn’t have it, but they injected me, ”the singer admits. And it was with carnival themes that he became popular in Cape Verde. “Wherever I go, if I don’t sing Ê tud e bada, they will boo me,” jokes Anicio Rodrigues, who always has a lot of coladeira and carnival rhythms at concerts.
In July of this year, he released an EP that is very different from his usual work. “I wanted to show that I have another side. Composer side b. “No Stress” is not the title of the EP, but it is the single I chose to represent it. In addition to being a musician, I am also a guide, tourists are like a country “under stress”, and in the video I start to wait for a tourist who is going to Mindelo and introduce tourist sites,” says Anicio Rodriguez about the video clip, in in which I begin to show the statue of the diva barefoot, outside the Cesaria Evora airport, sneaks into Monte Cara to take shape at the entrance to Mindela, strolls through the streets and squares of the city, and where there is no shortage of totina, heated by a fire on the beach at the end of the day. A video clip in which the morabes Anicio Rodriguez meets.
Author: Thiago Souza Diaz
Source: CM Jornal
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