Songwriter, poet, singer, and from 2012 to 2016 Minister of Culture of Cape Verde, Mario Lucio holds an important place on the Cape Verdean cultural and musical scene. He is back with an album produced by a young Portuguese musician-producer Rui Ferreira that brings new sounds to Cape Verdean music while retaining its soul. On Migrants, Mario appeals to our humanism and pays tribute to those who have lost their lives trying to cross lands and seas over the centuries. This album, the tenth in the artist's career is in itself a gesture of migration and encounters. It is the first time that Mario Lucio has entrusted the arrangements and musical production to a European, in this case Rui Ferreira, multi-instrumentalist musician from Porto.Mario Lucio has written for Cesaria Evora, Mayra Andrade and many others, and in this new album reveals all his talent as a poet and composer.
