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'My Dad didn't have many singing records, except for songs about independence and Amilcar Cabral, father of our nation'
Chris Searle speaks to singer CARMEN SOUZA
Carmen Souza [Courtesy of Galileo Records]

EARLY British imperialists like Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh kidded history by profiling themselves as “explorers.” Here’s a brilliant singer with her roots in Cape Verde, who, in her songs, often with an incisive wit and passion, explores their brutal pathfinding and exposes the origins of 400 years of colonial oppression.

Carmen Souza was born to Cape Verdean immigrant parents in Lisbon in 1981. Her father worked in shipping cargo, her mother was a housekeeper.

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