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Selma Uamusse @ Franco on Saturday
10:05 CAT | 10 May 2023
Selma Uamusse @ Franco on Saturday
Selma Uamusse returns to Mozambique for a special concert this Saturday (Europe Day) at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre.
Born in Mozambique and based in Portugal, Uamusse, who merges her musical and lexical roots with tonalities of electronica, jazz, soul-funk and Afrobeat, will recap her most memorable themes of her Mati (2018) an Livoning (2020) collections, such as "Ngono Utane Vuna Kud ima" and "Hoyo Hoyo".
In the emotion which characterizes any return home, Selma Uamusse promises a tribute concert to the country that continues to inspire her artistic creation and her work as a social activist.
This is what Uamusse wrote on her Instagram page about next Saturday's concert.
"The first and only time I performed solo in Mozambique was in 2017, at the Mozambique Music Meeting MM Festival. We had not released records and our experience of performing on stages outside Portugal was slim. We had been pondering a reunion at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre for a long time, and I am delighted with this reunion. We return with two albums in our pocket, ‘Mati’ and ‘Liwoningo’, both dedicated to Mozambique, its polyrhythmic, polyphonic riches and cultural wealth, the characteristic truths of a Mozambican woman in the diaspora, a handful of concerts in some corners of the world, but with the nervousness and the joy of someone returning home, as if I am singing here for the first time.
"As part of the ‘Africa-Europe Concert’ I join a group of incredible women of whom I am a fan and whose talented work I follow closely. They are Assa Matusse, Lenna Bahule and Pongo, and I’m bringing my super band composed of Augusto Macedo, Gonçalo Santuns, Milton Gulli, Nataniel Melo and Hugo Santos.
"Maputo, let's go and let's go with a lot of determination, we are counting on you for a huge musical hug."
- Selma Uamusse - Concerto África -Europa
- Saturday, May 13, from 6:00 p.m. at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre
- Tickets are on sale at CCFM from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at 600 meticais each.
- Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre, Av. Samora Machel 468, Maputo
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