blu samu

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Blu Samu’s deep soul voice vibrates with intensity, with smoothness and determination. […] Blu Samu walks the tightrope between joy and melancholy, managing to make it the foundation of her intense and playful creation.

At 27 years old, Blu Samu heals her wounds – whether they come from friends, parents, lovers – with her 7 melancholic and rebellious ballads, filled with an elegant exuberance, where she invites some exciting electronic experimentations. Sometimes, her voice takes a more frontal and rap-like approach (Turquoise, Birds). But then, it becomes more slippery and moist, taking inspiration from the morna, a Cape Verde music style (Pai) or the fado (Amor), with whom she grew up with. Blu Samu always delivers a vocal intensity that links her seven songs together, switching from English to French and Portuguese. […]

Her new EP “7” is the gateway between several emotional, cultural, and artistic worlds, reuniting her youth’s idols (Missy Elliott and Sade), recalling Britain’s psychedelic R&B (Greetea Pang), or Tierra Whack’s velvety rap, blending the traditional Cape Verde music and Belgian rap, solar enthusiasm with electro melancholy, with her determined yet fluid voice as a connecting link, taking down the binary division of masculine and feminine to create something new and different.

Listen to “7” here

past shows: La Maroquinerie (Paris), Le Botanique (Brussels), Festival We Are Open (Antwerp), Festival Rock En Seine (Paris), support Ibeyi Tour (France, Belgium and Netherlands) Festival Espernzah (Belgique) Funkitown (belgique) Festival La Connexion (France)…