Celina Pereira (10 September 1940 - 17 December 2020) was a Cape Verdean singer and an educator.

Career

She was a primary school teacher in Viseu. She published her first single in 1979 ''Bobista'' (now spelt as ''Bubista'' in Boa Vista Creole) by the label Discos Monte Cara by Bana. In 1986, she recorded her first album ''Força di Cretcheu'' (''Força do Meu Amor'') and was arranged by the music director Paulino Vieira and includes stories of nursery rhymes, plays and work. In 1990, she released the LP ''Estória, Estória... No Arquipélago das Maravilhas'' which was also done by Paulino Vieira. She started worked to tell stories in the United States in 1991. She published the album ''Nós Tradição'' (''Our Tradition'') along with the French publisher Melódie in 1993. She took part in the compilation ''Pensa nisto!...''. The disc ''Harpejos e Gorjejos'' was published in 1998 and sang in Portuguese and Creole. Told with the musical director Zé Afonso. She interpreted the morna "Bejo de saudade" of

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with fadist Carlos Zel. She worked with

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on the song "Nutridinha (nutridinha do sal)" on the Lusofonia disc in 2000. "Estória, Estória..." was re-recorded on CD and an audiobook cassette and won several international awards. She was awarded the medal of merit - commemorative degree - by the Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio in 2003, for her work and area in education of Cape Verdean culture. "Estória, Estória… do Tambor a Blimundo", another audiobook which recovered significant heritage of African traditional stories and rhymes. The illustrations were done by Italian

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and the texts were done by herself with the adaptation of two African tales. She prepared for a new edition, a multilingual ones with versions in Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole, English and French. Illustrations were done by Mozambican painter

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. She prepared an edition of tales based on the history of the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde. Pereira celebrated the Career Award in Concert about

in 2014.

Discography

Albums

* Bobista, Nha Terra / Oh, Boy ! (Single, Monte Cara, 1979) * Força de cretcheu (Lp, Dacapo, 1986) * Estória, Estória...No Arquipélago das Maravilhas (''Tales, Tales, The Wonderful Archipelavo'') (1990) * Nos Tradição (Melodie, 1993) (Sonovox, 1994) * Harpejos e Gorgeios (CD, Sonovox, 1998) * Estória, estória... no arquipélago das maravilhas vol. 1 (CD, Movieplay, 1998) * Estória, estória... no arquipélago das maravilhas vol. 1 (audiobook, Editora Independente) * Estória, estória... do tambor a Blimundo vol.2 (audiobook, Tabanka Onlus, 2004)

Singles

*"Força di cretcheu" (1993/1994) - in the album ''Nos Tradição'', originally by Eugénio Tavares

References

External links

Celina Pereira at DiscogsBiography of Celina Pereira

Official blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pereira, Celina 20th-century Cape Verdean women singers Creole musicians 1940 births 2020 deaths People from Boa Vista, Cape Verde