Pedrinho – Aleluia

TRACKS:

A1 Ei Se Vous Dancé
A2 Nhôs Baxa Nhôs Panha
A3 Zé Maria
A4 Capataz De Moquero
A5 Ainda Lhe Espero
A6 Mãe
B1 Benfica De Tra Cthapeu
B2 Contrato La Banana
B3 Oração Do Jovem Triste
B4 Mudjêr Câ Bo Frontân
B5 Chipetite
B6 Aleluia

DESCRIPTION

Mar & Sol first release Is Aleluia Lp from the Cabo Verde singer Pedrinho. At the time, late 70's, this Lp was one of the biggest successes from Cabo Verde music. Singer Pedrinho moved to Lisbon when he was 18 years old, and recorded this album, the first one of his career.Aleluia was produced in the same street where Mar & Sol is based nowadays, in Rua de S.Bento, Lisbon, Portugal. This street was also where Pedrinho come to live when he arrived in Portugal, like the majority of the musicians and emigrants from the old African Portuguese colonies move at that time, to try a new luck. A big community grew here and these artists got the opportunity to record their own traditional music by the hands of local labels. Now is the time for Mar & Sol to give a new life to all this music, this is the first of many reissues that are coming to start the series of the label.