Sara Tavares
Sara Tavares
Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares was a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist. She was born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal. Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent, she composed African-, Portuguese- and North American-influenced world music.
"We speak Portuguese slang, Angolan slang, some words in Cape Verdean Crioulo, and of course some English. In Crioulo there are already English and French words. This is because slaves from all over the world had to communicate and didn’t speak the same languages. We are a metisse culture."
Sara Tavares"Its a whole inner process of dealing with my issues, and I think the music is medicine and a cathartic process for me,So thats why I do it — for me most of all."
Sara Tavares"There is a big, big generation of Cape Verdeans and other Africans here in Lisbon, in Paris, in Boston, all over; with a kind of messed-up identity."
Sara Tavares"Our generation feels very lost because there is no culture specifically for us; that talks about our reality."
Sara Tavares
