Mozambique’s Paulina Chiziane arrives in Angola to promote her first music album and more – O País

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Mozambique’s Paulina Chiziane arrives in Angola to promote her first music album and more – O País

4:24 CAT | 23 Feb 2022

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The 2021 Camões Prize will promote Paulina Chiziane’s first album, Cantos de Esperança [Songs of Hope], in Luanda and Huambo. Paulina Chiziane flew to Angola this Tuesday to maintain partnerships and exchanges with Angolan artists.

“Muhethi wa mbilu yanga” (Owner of my heart” (in Changana/Rhonga ) is one of Paulina Chiziane’s favourite songs in this album. Composed by the singer-songwriter, it has been interpreted by Grande Homem and Helena Promise, and portrays the heartbeats of those who love and let themselves become addicted to those feelings.

“Muhethi wa mbilu yanga” is track 10 on the album Cantos de Esperança, and, like other songs written by Paulina Chiziane, is proposes that “love is a cornerstone in the construction of humanity”.

In addition to “Muhethi wa mbilu yanga”, the writer’s first album includes tracks such as “Oração da Família”, “When tomorrow arrives”, “Olhar para ti, África”, “Dom de Deus”, “Guruè” and “Mhamba ya Mondlane”.

Recorded in 2019, Cantos deEsperança had little repercussion in Mozambique.

Perhaps for that reason, Paulina Chiziane accepted the invitation to go to Luanda and Huambo to promote the record, intended to be the first of several that she will release in the near future.

Those who know her only from writing should not be surprised to learn that Paulina Chiziane’s passion for the arts in general is very old. As a girl, she painted a little of everything. Only later came writing, which, through the sound of the timbila of the Chope people, her ethnicity, was able to give a sonorous title to her first book: Balada de amor ao vento.

In 2015, she launched, with Timbila Muzimba, the musical “África, liberta-te” in Maputo city.

After the years curating the artistic and cultural legacy of her people, Paulina Chiziane decided to compose and invest in the production of her music, counting on the collaboration of artists such as Eduardo Salmo, Grande Homem, Firmina da Neta, Helena Promise and Larícia Rita.

It was accompanied by these artists that, this Tuesday, she left Maputo for Luanda, the Angolan capital and Huambo, in the south of that country.

Paulina Chiziane will promote her album for two weeks and meet Angolan artists.

Now, how does such an invitation, usually made to writers rather than singer-songwriters come about? A happy encounter. In December last year, when Angolan singer Yuri da Cunha went to Bairro Albazine in Maputo to visit the writer. His intention was to congratulate her on the 2021 Camões Award and express her admiration. Yuri da Cunha also commented on Chiziane’s work affirming tradition and rescuing African values inside and outside the continent.

Read: Angolan singer Yuri da Cunha meets Paulina Chiziane; a “historic day” taking instagram by storm | Mozambique

While in Angola, Paulina Chiziane intends to promote a project related to the holding of bi-annual musical concerts in Mozambique.

Angolans fans of her writing will also be glad to learn Paulina is taking to Angola copies of her latest title, A Voz do Cárcere (co-authored with Dionísio Bahule) and new editions of Niketche and Balada de Amor ao Vento, published by Matiko.

Cantos de Esperança comprises 12 tracks and features, in the song “Tenta”, a collaboration with rapper Azagaia [Edson da Luz].

By Jose dos Remédios

Source: O País