Our People+Our Culture+Our Perspective #Afrofreequency Mayra Andrade Although she was born in Cuba, Andrades parents are both Cape Verdean, and she and her family returned to Cape Verde a few days after her birth. Andrade spent the first years of her life in Cape Verde, but because her father was a diplomat for the Cape Verdean government, she traveled extensively with her family and lived in many countries during her childhood. Hence, during her childhood, she lived in Senegal, Angola, and Germany. However, she spent around two months of the year[5] in the Cape Verdean island of Santiago. Andrade moved to Paris in 2002 when she was 17 years old and has lived there ever since. She is multilingual, but most of the lyrics of the songs on her albums are in her native Cape Verdean Crioulo language. The first song she remembers singing is O Leãozinho by the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, whom she has cited as a musical influence.
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