Chitsondzo opens ‘Talks to Deceive Time’ at CCBM, Maputo

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Chitsondzo opens ‘Talks to Deceive Time’ at CCBM, Maputo

2:04 CAT | 12 Feb 2019

File photo: O País

The Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Centre (CCBM) in Maputo is today opening its new project, ‘Talks to Deceive Time’, with Mozambican composer and interpreter Roberto Chitsondzo as its first guest.

This project will promote informal meeting among Mozambican personalities, including artists, politicians and sportsmen, who have “stories” to tell.

“This project is a new way of living the art, in a relaxed atmosphere as if these were the conversations around the fireplace of our “Nkaringana wa Nkaringana”, without age and without frontiers and almost without subject, just to not let the time in us deceive,” the CCBM press release about the event reads.

The guest invited to open the series, Roberto Chitsondzo, has a voice that has imposed itself on Mozambican music for more than 30 years.

“He is a singer who was not only born in Mozambique. Mozambique is being born of him, of the talent of someone who sings to us all and who celebrates the places and names we have without us knowing so before him,” Mia Couto is quoted in the statement as saying.

Chitsondzo lent his voice to the Ghorwane – the Good Boys, when the band was almost shattered by the loss of another booming voice, Zeca Alaje, interpreter of, among other successes, the popular “Massotxa”. That brought Chitsindzo out as what, deep down, he already was: a successful musician and expert storyteller. Thus perhaps the responsibility of being the first presence on this “new way of being” in the city, the ‘Talks to Deceive Time’, reliving moments, places and the various nuances of life.

“Encounters with those who have stories to tell, and who can inspire new stories” neatly summarises the Kuphaluxa Literary Movement’s new project.

‘Talks to Deceive Time’ will take place at the CCBM at 6:00 p.m. every Tuesday.

By Hélia Chopo

Source: O País