Lets do it now nelson freitas biography

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After the pause of new programming at Worldwide FM, Africa Is a Country Radio has been on hold. So, today, Africa Is a Country is happy to announce a new partnership with Rhythm Lab Radio, a weekly, NPR-syndicated program produced at Radio Milwaukee studios. With the tagline “redefining the urban sound,” Rhythm Lab Radio has been promoting new and classic sounds from around the global underground for nearly 19 years. In the partnership, AIAC will be conducting on-air interviews and programming thematic shows, particularly around African music. The interviews will be published as extended transcripts on Africa Is a Country. Our first interview is the following, conducted with Cape Verdean-Dutch singer Nelson Freitas on the occasion of the release of his latest album, Black Butterfly. Listen back to the audio of the show here.

Interview by

Boima Tucker

Cape Verdean music is currently evolving in new and exciting directions. Artists from the islands, and in the widely dispersed diaspora, are promoting their culture through the musical genres introduced to the world by legends of Afropop such as Cesária Évora, mixing it with electronic techniques and hip-hop-tinged aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the melting pot of Lisbon, where Cape Verdeans brush up against migrants from around the Portuguese-speaking world, representing their own cultural roots while dabbling in the folk and popular musics of Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé, and more. It was in Lisbon where we found Nelson, who had himself relocated to the epicenter of lusophone culture from Rotterdam, Netherlands, some years ago.

Nelson, an important innovator in the genres of zouk and kizomba that are hugely popular in francophone and lusophone worlds, came to prominence by adding harder, urban aesthetics into the softer, romantic sounds of the French Caribbean. His recent work is dabbling in the more pan-African-oriented styles being pushed i

Nelson Freitas est un chanteur, producteur et patron du label GhettoZouk Music (sur lequel ont signé des artistes comme Chelsy Shantel et William Araujo.)

Biographie

Il est d'origine capverdienne mais il est né, a grandi et vit aux Pays-Bas.

Sa musique est un mélange de zouk capverdien (un style proche de la kizomba) et de r'n'b.

Il a débuté en tant que chanteur de Quatro (IV), groupe (boys band) de fusion de zouk/rnb (genre qu'ils désignent ghettozouk), qu'il forme avec Nilton Ramalho, Nelson Oliveira et Adilson Ben David.

Le groupe a sorti son premier titre sur la compilation "MOBASS presents...", "Hoje em Dia" (Un jour), puis a sorti trois albums : "4-Voz" (Quatre voix) en 1998 (incluant leur premier single "Si bo cre"), puis sous le nom Quatro Plus (Quatro+) (car rejoints par Edson Freitas) : "Bem Consché" (Pour mieux nous connaître) en 2002 (avec plusieurs singles devenus des hits tels que "Kazanga"), et "Ultima Viagem" (Dernier Voyage) en 2004.

Nelson a sorti son premier album solo intitulé "Magic" en , avec des paroles en créole et en anglais. Cet album s'est vendu à plus de 25 000 exemplaires dans le monde entier; il a été disque de platine en Angola. Il comprenait le hit Deeper en duo avec Kaysha.

En 2008, son duo avec Chelsy Shantel (dans le cadre du projet Kizomba Brasil), Boa Sorte (Good Luck) (reprise de Vanessa da Mata & Ben Harper), est un des grands succès de l'année en matière de kizomba.

En 2010, est sorti son second album, "My Life", qui incluait le tube Rebound Chick et les participations de William Araujo, Mc Knowledje, Laise Sanches et Anselmo Ralph.

Nelson Freitas a également collaboré avec pas mal d'autres artistes, pour des duos ou "featurings".

Discographie

Albums de Quatro

Musical artist

Nelson Freitas (born April 4, 1975) is a Cape Verdean-Dutch Ghetto-Zouk singer, producer and recorder. He records with GhettoZouk Music, which also signed artists Chelsy Shantel and William Araujo.

Biography

Freitas was born in the Netherlands to Cape Verdean parents. His music features Cape Verdean Zouk and R&B. His first record was with a boy's band called "Quatro Plus" (IV), a zouk/R&B band which was formed with Nilton Ramalho, Nelson Oliveira and Adilson Ben David.

The group released their first tracks on the album MOBASS presents..., "Hoje em Dia" ("Nowadays"), plus three albums 4-Voz (Four Voices) in 1998 including the single "Si bo cre", then as Quatro+ with Edson Freitas, his brother included. Bem Consché in 2002 (with additional singles that became hits including "Kazanga") and ("Última Viagem") ("Last Journey") in 2004.

Nelson released his first solo album, titled Magic, in October 2006, with songs in English and Cape Verdean Creole (some featuring Vanessa da Mata and Ben Harper). His second album, My Life, was released in 2010 and includes "Rebound Chick" and appearances by William Araujo, Mc Knowledje, Sanches Laisa and Anselmo Ralph. His third album was Elevate in 2013. Some tracks features C4 Pedro on "Bo Tem Mel", a Creole song; Djodje on "Bem Pa Mi" in another Creole song; Anselmo Ralph on "Drinks on Me" and Eddy Parker and Crucial in "All Upon You". The sixth track, "Simple Girl", featured a music video that was awarded Best Video at the 2013 Cabo Verde Music Awards.

His most recent release was Four, in 2016. Its tracks feature Portuguese singer Richie Campbell on "Break of Dawn"; another Cape Verdean singer, Mayra Andrade, on "Nha Baby"; Loony Johnson on "That's Why I Love You" and Mikkel Solnado on "In My Feelings", "Miúda Linda", its final track, is a remix.

Freitas is currently signed to the label named Believe.

Discography

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