Vera Cruz

Her new project Sakuta! Presented in 2011, Krioll Jazz Festival, third edition. Sakuta! is built around the subject of Cape Verdean femininity, and features songs like Badia di Fora, as well as an adaptation of Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman, called Fémia. The album also has the island of Santiago – Vera’s home island – as a central theme. Danilo Silva – the talented Cape Verdean guitarist – was an important part of the creative process in songs like Katrisamentu and Kartada. In Cape Verdean, the word sakuta means to listen; for this artist, it is a synopsis of her own memories and of stories told, lived, and felt.