Songs For Luanda: Aline Frazão/Recording Artist at TEDxLuanda 2013

Recording Artist
Aline Frazao was born and raised in Luanda (Angola) and currently lives in Lisbon. Stepped on stage for the first time 9 years and since then has had the opportunity to sing various styles of music as fado, pop, jazz and traditional music of Angola and Cape Verde. At age 15 he began writing the first songs, playing guitar with influences coming from Brazil, especially bossa nova.

Between 2006 and 2009 combined the university in Lisbon with small collaborations in various music projects and theater. In your travel route followed by Barcelona, where the project was born "My packs", whose sole album was released two years later, in June 2011. But it was in Madrid, the city where he lived for about two years, he started making solo acoustic concerts in bars and concert halls, playing versions of classical music Angolan, Cape Verdean and Brazilian, and also issues of his own. Seeking to unite two passions - travel and sing - Aline worked in various cities such as Paris, Dublin, Lisbon, Luanda, Brussels, London and Buenos Aires.

After participating in the 2010 edition of the Cantos Maré, Galician festival dedicated to lusofonia, Angola decided to move this time to Santiago de Compostela and devote himself exclusively to music. Then he formed the band that accompanies today: Cuban bassist and percussionist Jose Manuel Díaz Galician Carlos Freire.

In September 2011, entered the studio to record their first album. "Clave Bantu" is an independent production that brings together a selection of eleven original songs composed by the Angolan during these last four years of travel. It also includes two partnerships with two unpublished writers Angola, José Eduardo Agualusa and Ondjaki. The album, arranged by Aline and Jose Manuel Díaz, also features cameos from the multi-instrumentalist Sergio Tannus and trombonist Portuguese Reuben of Light.
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