Mário Lúcio Sousa (born October 21, 1964) is a Capeverdean singer, composer, writer, politician and a painter. From 2011 to 2016, he was the Capeverdean Minister of Culture.
Biography
Childhood and teenage years
He was born Lúcio Matias de Sousa Mendes in the town of Tarrafal in the island of Santiago's north in the final decade of Portuguese rule.
Mário Lúcio lost his father when he was 12. At age 15, he and his seven siblings lost his mother. He lived in the barrack buildings of the Cape Verdean forces in his hometown under the care of the military. In 1984, he received a scholarship by the Cuban government in Havana where he studied and graduated six years later. He returned to his country where he practiced law. Between 1996 and 2001, he was member of the Cape Verdean parliament.
Musical career
He later founded the band
Simentera
Simentera were a Capeverdean band or a music group performing traditional and world music and was one of the most famous groups in Cape Verde.
History
The band was founded in 1992. Two years after the foundation, they appeared at the 1994 Sfink ...
. His ideas received an invitation by his government and became author of the ''Cape Verdean Musical Projects'' for Expo 92 in Seville and
Expo 98
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in Lisbon. He is a founder and director of Quintal da Música Cultural Association, a private cultural center featuring traditional music. As a composer, he was a member of SACEM (Societé française des Droits d'auteur) with compositions that Cesária Évora and other Cape Verdean artists recorded. He is the permanent composer of the Raiz di Polon Company, the only contemporary dance formation in the islands. In 1996, he recorded an album ''Nôs Morna'',
Ildo Lobo
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in Sines, Portugal on June 24.
Bibliographical works and paintings
He is also a painter and participate in some of his exhibitions. He also appeared in poetry, and theater. In 2009, he wrote a novel titled ''Testamento'' (''Testament'') published by Dom Quixote, his recent novel won the Carlos de Olvieira Award and was a bestseller in Portugal. His next novel released in 2014 was ''Biografia do Língua'' which about the history of a language, the novel won the
Miguel Torga Literary Award
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Places
* Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands
* São Miguel (disa ...
in July 2015.
Minister of Culture
In late 2011 after the
elections
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, he became Capeverdean Minister of Culture for five years, he succeeded Manuel Veiga as minister. In his first year on November 2 and 3, he went to Paris to visit with the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Culture. After the 2016 general election, Álvaro Anibal Barbosa Vicente succeeded Mário Lúcio Sousa as culture minister.
Works
* ''Nascimento de Um Mundo'' Born in a World"(poetry, 1990)
* ''Sob os Signos da Luz'' 'About the Signs of Light''(poetry, 1992)
* ''Para Nunca Mais Falarmos de Amor'' (poetry, 1999)
* ''Os Trinta Dias do Homem mais Pobre do Mundo'' 30 Days of More Poverty in the World on Man"(fiction, 2000 - Winner of the 1st Portuguese Language Bibliographical Fund Award)
* ''Adão e As Sete Pretas de Fuligem'' (theater, 2001).
*''Vidas Paralelas'' 'Parallel Lives''(fiction, 2003)
* ''Saloon'' (theater, 2004);
* ''Teatro'' 'Theater''/''Theatre''(collections, 2008);
* ''Novíssimo Testamento'' 'A Brand New Testament''(novel, 2009).
* ''Biografia do Língua'' 'Biography of a Language''* " O Diabo Foi Meu Padeiro"
* " A última Lua de Homem Grande"
Discography
With Simentera
* ''Raiz'' (
Lusafrica
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/Sunny Moon, 1992)
** "Codjeta", originally by Kaká Barbosa
** "Nha Codê”, originally by Pedro Cardoso
* ''Barro E Voz'' (Mélodie/Indigo, 1997)
** "Nha nobo"
* ''Cabo Verde En Serenata'' (Piranha/EFA, 2000)
**"Tchapeu di padja" - originally a poem by Jorge Barbosa
**"Valsa Azul"
* ''Tr'Adictional'' (Mélodie/Indigo, 2003)
** "Lua Cheia", featuring Maria João
Solo
*''Mar e Luz'' 'Sea and Light''(2004)
*''Ao Vivo e outros'' 'Live and Other''(2006)
*''Badyo'' (2008)
*''Kreol'' (2010)
*''Funanight'' (2016)
Lovely Difficult
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'' (2013) by
Mayra Andrade
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Background
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Awards
*Received the Portuguese Language Library Fund Award in 2000
*He was decorated by the President of the Republic of his country in 2006 with the Order of Vulcan alongside Cesária Évora, he was the youngest to be awarded.
*He was awarded the Carlos de Oliveira Literary Award in 2009 on ''Novíssimo Testamento''
*He was awarded the Miguel Torga Literary Award in 2015 on the work ''Biografia do Língua''