Just like the Cape Verdean diva Cesaria Evora, Gabriela Mendes was born and… Read Full Bio ↴Just like the Cape Verdean diva Cesaria Evora, Gabriela Mendes was born and grew in the town of Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, one of the nothern islands in Cape Verde.
She was four years old when she discovered the pleasure of music, by listening to her mother singing with famous musicians such as the violonist Malaquias.
The little girl Gabriela went to the Salesiana School, famous to have accomodated futures great names of contemporary Cape Verdean music (Tito Paris, Paulino Vieira, Bau, etc). Father Cristiano insisted in order she integrated the choral society of the school; she quickly became the soloist of it.
Parallel to this first musical engagement, Gabriela learnt how to sing the melodies and Cape Verdean rhythms in district festivals; she moves from mornas to coladeiras or galôpe.
Encouraged by her virtuosos friends Bau, Voginha or Bius, she understood quickly that her passion for music was taking more and more importance in her life.
At the end of the 90s, Gabriela runs concerts in pubs and hotels of Mindelo, one following the others. Her repertory was increasing and it drew public’s attention.
In 2000, she went up for the first time on the stage of a festival, that was in Santo Antão, and a few months later, she was invited at the festival of Santa Maria (island of Sal) where she sang for 40000 people, accompanied by Cesaria Evora's musicians.
My concert was a success, the critics received me like a revelation of the Cape Verdean music, I even had a very first proposal for a contract.
At the end of 2000, a label makes her play in Paris, in first part of her fellow countrywoman Mariana Ramos. And she concluded the year 2000 with her first concert in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on the island of Santiago.
The following year, after having made a song recital with Bau, Bius, Djosinha, Luis Morais or Tito Paris in São Vicente, her island, Gabriela seduces the public of the famous festival of Baia das Gatas, then at Escurralete, in the next island of Santo Antão.
In 2002, she played several times in Portugal; in Porto at the festival “Oporto 2002”, then musical evenings at the Pub Enclave in Lisbon. She is invited in other festivals, as in Fest-Vale in the island of Santiago or in Praia da Cruz in Boa Vista.
In 2003, she is selected in Mindelo among others very famous Cape Verdean artists for a tribute to Bana, before trying to conquer the heart of the audience of the 9th Festival of the Traversée de Tahitou, in France.
She will give some others concerts in France in 2004.
These trips to France continue in 2005 since that's in Paris, at Studios Plus XXX that Gabriela records her first album Tradição, produced by Casa da Morna Lda and distributed by Empreinte Digitale/Nocturne. When released, the CD album has been diffused regularly on Radio International France, France Inter, France Culture and was the subject of criticisms very encouraging in the French press.
After a new passage to the festival of Baia das Gatas, Gabriela chooses the Parisian stage of China Club for launching Tradição, concert followed by other events in Mam' Bia, Renoma Café (Paris), or at the Casino des Pins in Sables d’Olonne.
In 2006, she's the first singer female to sing at Baia das Gatas's festival, followed by other great names like Dudu Araujo or Tcheka. Some weeks later, she's included in two compilations: the first one is a Putumayo's playlist, the other one is Zone Franche, a french network interested by world music.
She was four years old when she discovered the pleasure of music, by listening to her mother singing with famous musicians such as the violonist Malaquias.
The little girl Gabriela went to the Salesiana School, famous to have accomodated futures great names of contemporary Cape Verdean music (Tito Paris, Paulino Vieira, Bau, etc). Father Cristiano insisted in order she integrated the choral society of the school; she quickly became the soloist of it.
Parallel to this first musical engagement, Gabriela learnt how to sing the melodies and Cape Verdean rhythms in district festivals; she moves from mornas to coladeiras or galôpe.
Encouraged by her virtuosos friends Bau, Voginha or Bius, she understood quickly that her passion for music was taking more and more importance in her life.
At the end of the 90s, Gabriela runs concerts in pubs and hotels of Mindelo, one following the others. Her repertory was increasing and it drew public’s attention.
In 2000, she went up for the first time on the stage of a festival, that was in Santo Antão, and a few months later, she was invited at the festival of Santa Maria (island of Sal) where she sang for 40000 people, accompanied by Cesaria Evora's musicians.
My concert was a success, the critics received me like a revelation of the Cape Verdean music, I even had a very first proposal for a contract.
At the end of 2000, a label makes her play in Paris, in first part of her fellow countrywoman Mariana Ramos. And she concluded the year 2000 with her first concert in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on the island of Santiago.
The following year, after having made a song recital with Bau, Bius, Djosinha, Luis Morais or Tito Paris in São Vicente, her island, Gabriela seduces the public of the famous festival of Baia das Gatas, then at Escurralete, in the next island of Santo Antão.
In 2002, she played several times in Portugal; in Porto at the festival “Oporto 2002”, then musical evenings at the Pub Enclave in Lisbon. She is invited in other festivals, as in Fest-Vale in the island of Santiago or in Praia da Cruz in Boa Vista.
In 2003, she is selected in Mindelo among others very famous Cape Verdean artists for a tribute to Bana, before trying to conquer the heart of the audience of the 9th Festival of the Traversée de Tahitou, in France.
She will give some others concerts in France in 2004.
These trips to France continue in 2005 since that's in Paris, at Studios Plus XXX that Gabriela records her first album Tradição, produced by Casa da Morna Lda and distributed by Empreinte Digitale/Nocturne. When released, the CD album has been diffused regularly on Radio International France, France Inter, France Culture and was the subject of criticisms very encouraging in the French press.
After a new passage to the festival of Baia das Gatas, Gabriela chooses the Parisian stage of China Club for launching Tradição, concert followed by other events in Mam' Bia, Renoma Café (Paris), or at the Casino des Pins in Sables d’Olonne.
In 2006, she's the first singer female to sing at Baia das Gatas's festival, followed by other great names like Dudu Araujo or Tcheka. Some weeks later, she's included in two compilations: the first one is a Putumayo's playlist, the other one is Zone Franche, a french network interested by world music.
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LifeSaver Eli-Yah
Gabriella,
your face shows signs of an Hebrew Yisraelitish woman, a TRUE daughter of Zion.
If you can feel these verses, you need something to do !
Deuteronomy 7:6-12,14-15
[6]For thou art an holy people unto YAHAWAH thy Power:
YAHAWAH thy Power hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
[7]YAHAWAH did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
[8]But because YAHAWAH loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath YAHAWAH brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
[9]Know therefore that YAHAWAH thy Power, he is the ALLMIGHTY, the faithful YAH, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
[10]And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
[11] Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
[12]Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that YAHAWAH thy Power shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
[14] Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
[15]And YAHAWAH will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Negroes are the true "children of Israel (=YahsharAL)