Lura

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Lura was born in Lisbon, but she adopted the music of her parents’ home country, Cape Verde. She joins us to explain why the Cape Verdean rhythm of morna makes her "experience things I’ve never known, but that are still somehow mine." And Lura performs live.

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