Tainá invites IRMA

Tainá landed in Portugal from her native Brazil where she studied music in spite of her family, working at the school to pay for her course. At the age of 21 she recorded her debut album in Lisbon, when she was only supposed to record a demo. The overflowing talent could not fit in a demo, not even in an EP, so it was urgent to record all that full and pristine music, until the last note, the last word, the final silence...
Tainá was walking through the streets of Lisbon when she spontaneously joined a jam with a group of musicians and was challenged to sing “Corcovado” by Tom Jobim. At the end she learned that it was Erlend Øye’s band, Kings of Convenience, who was performing solo the next day at the Capitol in Lisbon. Invited to attend the concert, Tainá was singing outside the Capitol when Erlend Øye heard her and joined her. But these and other facts become fascinating stories when told by Tainá, a skilled storyteller, singer, and composer, who in “Dreams” reveals only the first chapter of a remarkable debut.

IRMA was born in Lisbon but her identity reflects the strong influence of Angolan culture, as Angola was the country of origin of her grandparents with whom she grew up. At the age of 12 she inherited a guitar from her mother, which she never stopped exploring, at the same time as she ventured into songwriting, first inside her room and gradually with the door open to the world. After her debut album, PRIMAVERA, IRMA released the EP Filha da Tuga. The artist tells her story and uses her journey to express the immense privilege of her Portugueseness being the result of the crossing of cultures and experiences. Being Portuguese is the synthesis of the contributions of the various cultures that have taken root in a country with a past in the four corners of the planet and an increasingly cosmopolitan present.

8th of July, saturday
Tilia Hostel, 21:00 h
Happening Gueshouse, 23:00 h