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Carmen Souza combines English sea shanties with Cape Verdean rhythms

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Carmen Souza is a jazz singer-songwriter and instrumentalist from Cape Verde .

She has composed eight songs for the album Port'Inglês - meaning English port - to explore the little-known history of the British presence in the island.

The British came for the cheap labour, goats, donkeys, salt, turtles, amber and archil, used in clothes manufacturing.

Carmen Souza's new album Port'Inglês is a mix of Cape Verdean and jazz.

She was inspired by B Léza 's admiration of the British .

She hopes to inspire younger generations that "there is a way to do something new with traditional genres".

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91

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91

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77

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semi-formal

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English

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49

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long-living

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