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An Evening with Lura
Friday, October 038pm
"Lura was dynamite: with a voice that modulated from a dreamy whisper to a ferocious shout, and with an act that was first comic, then sexually provocative, then rabble-rousing, she turned the Purcell Room into a stadium. When her international career gets going, this girl will fill stadiums."
– Michael Church, reviewing her London debut for The Independent
Rising young star Lura breathes new life into the music of
her ancestors, fusing her African roots and Portuguese upbringing to bring a
multicultural flair to the music of her parents’ home—Cape Verde, the small
country off of Africa’s west coast. With a fresh, exhilarating style blending
French Afro-pop, traditional African music, jazz, and Brazilian rhythms, Lura is
finally breaking through on the
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Lura performs "Vaselina"
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