Singer Dino D’Santiago will celebrate ten years of “EVA”, his first solo album, with two shows, in November in Lisbon and December in Porto, in which he will play it in its entirety.
The celebration of ten years of “EVA” is scheduled for November 24 at the Tivoli, in Lisbon, and December 6 at the Casa da Música, in Porto, according to the music and communications agency Arruada, in a statement released today.
Dino D’Santiago guarantees that these will be “two unique and special nights”, in which he will celebrate the album “with a look at the artist’s past, present and future”.
“EVA” will be presented in its entirety, with the musician giving “new interpretations” to themes such as “Nos Tradison”, “Pensa na Oji”, “Ka bu Txora” and “Djonsinho Cabral”, an original by Tubarões.
At both shows, the documentary short film “Eva, onti y oji”, by Chris Costa, will be shown for the first time, “transporting the audience to the places and people that inspired the creation of the album in 2013”.
Arruada recalls that “EVA” is an album dedicated to Dino D’Santiago’s niece Eva, who is the main character in the short film.
Before “EVA”, in 2008, Dino D’Santiago had released “Eu e os meus”, but as Dino and The Soul Motion.
As Dino D’Santiago, the singer published “Mundu Nôbu” (2018), “Kriola” (2020) and “Badiu” (2021).
In “Badiu”, Dino D’Santiago praises, more than ever, batuku and funaná, sounds from Cape Verde “that have resisted oppression”, as well as the badius, a symbol of resistance and resilience, which he honors with this work.
These people, he explained in an interview with Lusa in 2021, were those who were taken from the territories where Gambia and Senegal are today, and later from Guinea-Bissau to Santiago Island in Cape Verde, enslaved by the Portuguese.
The ‘badius’ were the ones who “managed to maintain the tradition of the rhythms that came straight out of Africa and were not acculturated as much as those that were held hostage and then sold to other countries, other markets”.
‘Badiu’ was a derogatory term, but it eventually became “a symbol of resistance”.
In the 12 songs that make up the album, Dino D’Santiago tackles themes such as “global warming, wars, the flight of refugees, the deaths of the seas”.
In addition to producers such as Branko, Toty Sa’Med, Tristany, Sirscrach and Valete, “Badiu” also featured vocal appearances by Slow J, Lido Pimenta, Rincon Sapiência and Nayela.
