- country:Mozambique
- style(s):Afro, Bantu
- label:NoOx Recordings
- type:Band, Solo, Duo
- artist contact:NoOx Worldwide / Construindo Com A Musica
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Artist and composer, was born in the City of Maputo and spent her adolescence in the City of Maxixe, in Inhambane. She currently resides in the Province of Maputo.
She began composing during her adolescence, inspired by her own pains and experiences. At that time, although she appreciated music in Bantu languages, her first lyrics were written in Portuguese.
During her college years, in the Multidisciplinary Workshops course, she formed, along with her colleagues, a band where they performed old-guard music while creating individual works. It was during these exercises that the artist composed her first two songs in 2018, and from then on, she began to consider walking the path of music.
In 2024, her musical project “Hemba” was selected to benefit from the Creative Mobility Grant for Emerging Artists, funded by the Swiss Cooperation, in partnership with the Cultural Space 16Neto. This allowed her to record her first album entitled “Hemba,” which contains seven tracks in the Guitonga language, spoken in the Southern region of Mozambique, in the province of Inhambane.
The album already toured around Mozambique.
Osvalda is a breath of fresh air, a talent, a simplicity that amazes, and a desire to pass on her cultural heritage to the whole world, blending sounds and rhythms from her own culture with more global rhythms, such as reggae and soul…
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