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可能很多朋友還不知道Mayra Andrade 是誰， 可聽過她的歌的樂迷，都很難忘她那很自由自由略帶點憂鬱的吟唱，她唱的歌曲歌詞都優美憂傷，歌頌愛情，和自然的對話，為大地母親擔憂，在如今的流行音樂裏獨具一格，也和熱烈的拉美拉丁歌曲有鮮明的不同。
Mayra Andrade 1985年出生於古巴哈瓦那，但先後在非洲的塞內加爾，安哥拉，德國生活成長，每年她都回去聖地亞哥的佛得角島嶼呆兩個月， 在那她深受葡萄牙音樂的熏陶，2001年在獲獎Jeux de la Francophone, 2008年獲英國BBC 3台的世界音樂獎。
目前Mayara 在法國巴黎生活居住，也在那錄音她的音樂。
Mayra Andrade (born 1985 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cape Verdean singer who lives and records in Paris, France.
Andrade was born in Cuba but grew up in Senegal, Angola, and Germany.However, she spent around two months of the year in the Cape Verdean island of Santiago. The first song she remembers singing is "O Leãozinho" by the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, whom she has cited as a musical influence. Andrade often performed as a teenager and won the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie songwriting contest at 16, beginning voice lessons in Paris at 17. During this time, she also met the composer Orlando Pantera and began collaborating with him. Andrade then began to perform in various Portuguese-speaking regions, including the Cape Verdean cities Mindelo and Praia as well as Lisbon. She won the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (English: German Record Critics Award) in 2007. She also won the Newcomer award at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008
