Gabriela Mendes
- música
Music was present in Gabriela's life from an early age, with her father playing the guitar and her mother singing at Catholic Church parties. At the age of six, as a student at the Salesian School in Mindelo, she began to be part of the choir, and at the age of 15 she was a soloist in the choir of the parish of Our Lady of Light.
On the island of Fogo where he lived for some time at the end of the 1990s, she writes poems and participates in tocatinas in the bars of São Filipe, then discovering the pleasure of interpreting mornas and koladeras and it is after a show by Cesária Évora on that island, in 1998, that she decides that music will be her path.
From 2000 on, she participates in festivals on the islands and later starts performing abroad. It is in France, after a few years of acting punctually in Parisian venues, that she will record the album Tradição. In 2012, at the invitation of Amândio Cabral and accompanied by American musicians led by pianist Larry Dunlap, Gabriela records jazzy interpretations of this composer's themes in Um renovo musical. Two years later, her discography gains a new title, with production by Swiss percussionist Stephen Rigert: Stephan Rigert's Talkingdrums featuring Gabriela Mendes/Cape Verde.
In 2014 she represented Cape Verde in the tenth edition of the International Lusophone Festival - Cantos de Maré.
Music was present in Gabriela's life from an early age, with her father playing the guitar and her mother singing at Catholic Church parties. At the age of six, as a student at the Salesian School in Mindelo, she began to be part of the choir, and at the age of 15 she was a soloist in the choir of the parish of Our Lady of Light.
On the island of Fogo where he lived for some time at the end of the 1990s, she writes poems and participates in tocatinas in the bars of São Filipe, then discovering the pleasure of interpreting mornas and koladeras and it is after a show by Cesária Évora on that island, in 1998, that she decides that music will be her path.
From 2000 on, she participates in festivals on the islands and later starts performing abroad. It is in France, after a few years of acting punctually in Parisian venues, that she will record the album Tradição. In 2012, at the invitation of Amândio Cabral and accompanied by American musicians led by pianist Larry Dunlap, Gabriela records jazzy interpretations of this composer's themes in Um renovo musical. Two years later, her discography gains a new title, with production by Swiss percussionist Stephen Rigert: Stephan Rigert's Talkingdrums featuring Gabriela Mendes/Cape Verde.
In 2014 she represented Cape Verde in the tenth edition of the International Lusophone Festival - Cantos de Maré.
