Sara Tavares

Sara Tavares ( born February 1, 1978 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese singer.

Life

Sara Tavares was born in 1978 as a child of Cape Verdean parents in Lisbon. Her father moved to the U.S. and her mother also disappeared, so Sara grew up in an elderly Portuguese woman who took up their upbringing. The Childhood of Sara but was influenced not only by that person, but also received strong impressions of her life on the road. She spent a lot of time to hang about on the street, where she met the company properly, with all its facets, contempt and rejection.

At 15, Sara won the two most important Portuguese music competitions and won the national qualification for the Euro Vision Song Contest. On April 30, 1994, she represented Portugal in Dublin, where she reached eighth place with their song Chamar A Música. You then become a national celebrity and takes on her first album, Sara Tavares and Shout, which is composed of various styles such as gospel, Rnb or Funk. You will have the opportunity in various Portuguese television broadcasts occur and is very successful. It also gives the first concerts outside of Portugal, for example, in the home of her parents.

In 1997 she retired from the public in order to deal more with the music and the musicians of West Africa can. Two years later, in 1999, her second, produced by Lokua Kanza album Mi Ma Bô appears. Sara writes and composes the bulk of the title itself, and this album reached gold in Portugal and is also highly respected internationally.

What is noticeable in their texts that they used a mix of different languages. Thus flow in their texts a Portuguese, a slang from Angola and the Cape Verdean Crioulo. Thus, it refers to the poor, living on the streets, layer to which it also counts itself.

In February 2006, their album balance which remains in the style of their second album was released. Sara composed and produced independently and now plays also a large part of the instruments himself.

In January / February 2007, she appeared on the German stage. So she performed in Berlin, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Cologne and Karlsruhe. The concert in Cologne was sold out with 400 spectators. She is also a frequent and welcome guest at the Africa Festival in Würzburg, the last concert appearance dated in May 2012.

Discography

• Chamar a Música (1994 )
• Sara Tavares and Shout (1996 )
• Mi Ma Bô (1999)
• Balance ( 2006)
• Alive! in Lisboa (2008)
• Xinti (2009)