16 May 2008
Luanda — The first instrumental music CD of the Angolan poetess Amélia da Lomba, entitled "Verso, Prece e Canto" (verse, prayer and chant) is to be released this Friday.
The author will be presenting her album this Friday at the Angolan Writers Union (UEA)'s premises, in Luanda, where she will also give autographs.
The album was recorded in Portugal and comprises various national and foreign music rhythms, among them salsa, bolero, reggae and morna (Cape Verdean dance and song), as well as romantic Christmas songs.
Amélia da Lomba decided to work on this disc with musicians from different African and European countries, namely Oswaldo Pegudo, Rafael F. Jorge Cervantes, Náná S. Dias, Zé Duarte, João Ferreira, Markus Britto, José Deb, Humberto Ramos, Daniel Salomé, Zé Afonso and Miguel Gonçalves.
In the first phase, the editor Ngola Música will put in the market three thousand copies of this first volume that has fifteen songs.
She was awarded in December 2005 with the first class of the Volcano Medal, by the Cape Verdean President, Pedro Pires.
Maria Amélia Gomes Barros da Lomba do Amaral was born on 23 November 1961, in the northern Cabinda Province and has already published, among various titles, the books "Ânsia" (anxiety)" and "Sacrossanto Refúgio (sacred refuge)".
She also published the books "Espigas do Sahel (Sahal spike)" and "Amor de Mãe nas Estrelas (mother's love in the stars)", this last one was published in March of 2008.
She collaborates in the state-owned daily newspaper "Jornal de Angola", where she has been publishing various poetic texts, she is one of the country's prominent writers of the generation that appeared in the 1980s.
Amélia da Lomba is a member of the Angolan Writers Union, where she has assumed various leading posts.
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