Mário Lúcio is one of the most recognizable figures of Cape Verde as a musician, a singer-songwriter, and one of the country’s foremost and leading composers of all time. An internationally acclaimed writer and author of “Manifesto a Criolização”, the most current work on the phenomenon of Creolization in the world.
Mário Lúcio’s signature songs and arrangements are found in an array of albums and songs most of which were interpreted and recorded by the late Cesária Évora and country’s emerging and established singers as well as artists as far afield as Brazil, France and Italy.
Mário Lúcio’s latest album ‘Migrants’ is a tribute to what is the great epic of being human: the phenomenon of migration. It is his understanding that “It is thanks to migration that we are so diverse today, because we dare to go further, adapt, mix. It is from this audacity of our common ancestors that we are born today from the palette of colors and textures that run in the DNA of each and every one. On the other side of history, somehow and at some point, we turned this ancestral journey inside out, invented separation and perverted what is most beautiful in us”.