Aline Frazão

30-year-old singer/songwriter Aline Frazão is from Angola's capital, Luanda, and her biography is a bit like that of many of the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) cultural space. In her teens she sings jazz, Brazilian pop and traditional music from Angola and Cape Verde. At fifteen, she moves to Lisbon. When she starts to write her first songs, they are still clearly influenced by Bossa Nova. While traveling from Buenos Aires to Dublin, she has gained a lot of experience performing in small bars and clubs, and the project A Minha Embala (2009), in which she participates, is a trip through the different Lusophone cultures.

With her first own album Clave Bantu (2011), she tells the story of her African people, who set out across the ocean to Brazil and Cuba. With her second work, Movimento (2013), she increasingly develops an independent sound language that lets the African roots withdraw in favor of a self-confident indie rock attitude. Frazão's third work Insular is a wonderful, exciting narrative by a woman from the tropics, who found the ideal melancholy setting for her poetic sound paintings in the isolation of the North Atlantic.