Yami Aloelela's new show, based on her latest album, “Casa”, is the culmination of a rich journey - in Portuguese music and world music - and with a strong authorial mark, both in her solo work and as a solo artist. escort to other great musicians and singers. With numerous collaborations and partnerships of great prestige, in concert and live, on his resume - Carlos do Carmo, Mariza, Paulo de Carvalho, Ivan Lins, Sara Tavares, Anna Maria Jopek, Demis Roussos, Rahani Krijna, Munir Hossn… -, Yami Aloelela has released solo albums “Aloelela” (2009) and “Beijo de Luz” (2016), as well as several EPs and singles.

From December 1 to 23, 2016, Portuguese-Angolan singer, songwriter, producer, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist Yami Aolelela took a jeep trip from south to north of Angola, the country where he was born. Accompanied by his older brother, the trip began in the Namib desert and would only end - more than 5,000 kilometers later - in Uige. It was a revealing and transformative journey, but also cathartic and redemptive. And it was the biggest touchstone and inspiration for their new album, “Casa”, which was released on March 15th through MWF - Music Without Frontiers.

The son of a Portuguese from Braga and an Angolan and Portuguese mother from Uíge, Yami was born in Luanda and came to Lisbon when he was only six years old. The memories of this city are still alive in it, but from the huge other Angola around it, it never had them. This trip has corrected this “inner absence” and fulfilled his old desire to know more deeply this land that is his cradle. Mestizo - “coffee with milk”, as he likes to say -, Yami has always carried to his music this hybrid condition of belonging, convincingly, to two cultures (and to many others with which, however, was living throughout his life) … But this time something very different happened: you felt that the silence and beauty of the Namib desert, the smell of acacia trees and ripe mangoes in Benguela or the musicality of birds and the sound of wind bouncing off the trees drove him back home. A House that, not knowing in this way, always felt to be in it after all.

Back in Lisbon, Yami closed at Home - this time, the one in which she lives with her wife and two children - and for almost two months composed and wrote the lyrics of this third album, “Casa”. Fully inspired by this trip, “Casa” was composed and written, sunlit and warm by the warmth of Angola. And it was, months later, recorded by Yami (who produces, sings, plays the acoustic guitar and bass) with the help of a suit of exceptional musicians: Gonçalo Sousa (harmonica), Tiago Oliveira (electric guitar), Vicky Marques (drums), Marito Marques (percussion), Phillipe Ferreira (acoustic guitar), Carlos Lopes (cavaquinho) and Iúri Oliveira (percussion).