São Paulo – The Brazilian samba singer Fabiana Cozza will play a concert at the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco, in Rabat, next Wednesday (3) at 8 pm. This will be her first concert in the North African Arab country.
“I always wanted to see Morocco, driven by the hands of music, my place of understanding in the world, a language so sensitive it is capable of bringing everyone together. I’m very happy and I hope the people of Rabat can come see us,” Fabiana told ANBA via email.
The show will feature songs Cozza recorded throughout her 20-year career, especially those from the 2015 CD Partir. The album explores Afro-Brazilian poetics in sonority, poetry and rhythms, conversing with African countries like Angola and Cape Verde, according to Cozza.
Almost all of the show will be sung in Portuguese, but Cozza will also sing songs in French and the African language Yoruba, which Cozza says “makes mention of the sacred Afro-Brazilian realm.”
The concert is expected to be attended by Brazilians and non-locals who live in the Arab country, as well as Moroccans. “My singing and my embrace will be shared by all of those who come,” says Cozza. The event is being held by the Embassy of Brazil in Rabat, which invited the singer.
The singer reveals that she played several concerts in Europe over the last few years, but her last time in Africa was in December 2016, at the invitation of the embassies of Brazil in Mozambique and Cape Verde.
Cozza is widely acclaimed Brazilian contemporary singers, and one of the leading samba singers in the country today. She is the daughter of the lead singer and songwriter with São Paulo samba school Camisa Verde e Branco.
Her first album, O samba é meu dom, was released in 2004. She has five CDs and two DVDs out and is getting ready to record a new one, a tribute to Dona Ivone Lara, the grand dame of Brazilian samba, who died this year. She is expected to begin recording when she gets back from Morocco.
Cozza has sung with Brazilian music giants of the likes of Elza Soares, João Bosco, Leci Brandão, Emicida and Rappin Hood. Overseas, she has worked with Japanese saxophone player Sadao Watanabe, songwriter and producer Kepa Junkera and Cuban trumpetist Julio Padrón. Cozza won a prize for Best Samba Singer in Brazil in 2012.
The Morocco concert will take place in the National Library Auditorium. Admission is free and seats are limited. The Embassy had support corporate from Asment Temara, Royal Air Maroc, Riyadh Dar el Kebira Salam and Havaianas in holding the event.
Quick facts
Fabiana Cozza in concert in Morocco
October 3, Wednesday, 8 pm to 9:30 pm
National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco – Auditorium
Ibn Khaldoun Ave., Agdal – Rabat
Free admission – limited seats
Find out more here
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
