“It is with great honor and a sense of responsibility that I embrace the presidency of Helpo. I am ready, count on me!” says Selma Uamusse in the video testimony she recorded to announce her new role.
It is with great happiness and the certainty that we have made the best decision that we received Selma Uamusse’s positive response to the invitation to lead Helpo.
Born in Maputo, from where she left as a child to live in Portugal, Selma Uamusse has an internationally recognized artistic career, but she is above all a woman of causes, who has given her voice and committed herself to different actions and movements for the defense of human rights, and who has been collaborating and associating herself with Helpo’s projects and campaigns for many years.
Música: Caramelows e Selma Uamusse Letra : Selma Uamusse, Luanda Cozetti e Renata Éssis
Criação do video: Studio Lagolagoa Animações: Raissa Laban e Laura do Lago
Músicos: Dré Guines – Guitarra Eder Araújo – Sax Tenor e Barítono Fernando TRZ – Piano Wurlitzer e Clavinet Marja Lenski – Percussões Pericles Zuanon – Bateria Rafael Barone – Baixo Renata Éssis – Vocais Rinaldo Santos – Trompete e Flugelhorn Selma Uamusse – Vocais William Zaharanszki – Guitarra
Gravação de base no estúdio seo Peri em Araraquara- SP no dia 12 de dezembro de 2019 Gravação das vozes da Selma no estúdio Nascer do Som, em Lisboa-PT Gravação de sopros no estúdio Hyperbrass
Produção musical: Rafael Barone Coprodução musical: Dré Guines, Eder Araújo, Fernando TRZ, Marja Lenski, Pericles Zuanon, Renata Éssis, William Zaharanszki Arranjo de sopros : Eder Araujo Engenharia de som: Dré Guines Mixagem: Rafaela Prestes Masterização: Igor Ferreira
In a world where war is a constant reality and filled with social, cultural and economic division. A world with borders reminding us that we’re ilegal, with hashtags that fill our social media but don’t change how we treat our neighbor. A world that runs from religion but seeks spirituality. A world soaked with information that provides only limited knowledge to some. A world where the privileged don’t care about problems that are not their own unless they’re personally affected. A world where many demand more love but don’t give without getting something in return. A world that doesn’t lack love, but lacks people that love however they are able to.
In a world like this, how can we believe in a God that is Light and be light in our daily life? This is my challenge: That we dare look, respect, honor, forgive, listen, love, touch, sit down, give, stop and give again. It’s a call to believe, but not only that. It’s a call to Be!
Few people know that my name is Lúcia, which means “the luminous one” or “the one born with the morning”. Near the time I was about to be born, my grandmother Ana had a dream or a vision of an angel, who announced that I was about to be born and that I would be, like Lúcia, her mother, someone who would sing to the nations and to God, bringing Light to the world. To my mother, it seemed important that I should have a first name of my own (Selma) but that I did not forget the inheritance of the angel’s announcement. So, she decided together with my father to call me Selma Lúcia. It’s not the best of matches, I know, but looking at where I am today, I understand how this symbolic dream is part of me and was a prophesy of what would be my mission and vision in life and in music.
I understood a long time ago that someday I would record an album called Light, or Lux, that would bring out my need to be Salt and Light in the brief time we have here on Earth. Having been strongly influenced by the chope culture, I dropped the changana word Livaningo and embraced the chope term: Liwoningo.
Produced by Guilherme Kastrup, who won a Latin Grammy Award for the album “A Mulher do Fim do Mundo”. Recorded partially in Palmela with Jori Collignon, who also recorded my previous album “Mati”, and my long-time collaborators Augusto Macedo, Gonçalo Santuns and Nataniel Melo, we also welcomed the mozambican Milton Gulli, with his characteristic guitar playing, to the band. Brazil is also everywhere in this album, thanks not only to our producer, but also to the many musicians that added their talent, including a collaboration with Bixiga.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn’t put it out.
Martin Luther King said that: “If we have not yet found a reason why it is worth dying, we have not yet found our reason for living”. A purposeful life in which we know why and with what intention we spend the time we spend our little existence on earth is a more complete and fulfilling life. This is the story of a man who, since he was born, knows that despite the difficulties of life he is loved, and that Love is what drives him and leads him to be a person without bitterness, happy with his life and catalyst of joy in others. Someone who knows that he will fight the good fight and that when he has finished his career he will have kept his faith, his hope and his light.
“Hoyo Hoyo”, which means welcome, is an invitation to a life with purpose, a life that does not look at circumstances but looks outside the self-centered box of our perspective, seeking solutions instead of focusing on problems, finding in the love for others, your reason for living. It has rock, it has soul, it has gospel, it has fun, the candor of children’s voices (my daughters) and it ends in a cathartic way with words that are almost “prophetic”.
Credits
Music video Directed and Produced by Casota Collective Starring : Aline Neves, Samuel Cruz, Selma Uamusse
Song Credits: Music composed by: Selma Uamusse, Gonçalo Santuns Selma Uamusse – Vocals Kastrup – MPC, vocals Chen Wa Gune – timbila, vocals Milton Gulli – Guitar, vocals Gonçalo Santuns – Drum, vocals Augusto Macedo – Bass, synth bass, rhodes, vocals Nataniel Melo – Sabar Tcholl, Sabar Nder and Tama Alice e Emma Uamusse Van Nespen – vocals
Music Produced by: Kastrup (Estúdio Toca do Tatu, SP, Brazil) Recorded by: Jori Collignon (Le Garage, Palmela) Vocals recorded by: Hugo Santos (Estúdio Nascer do Som, Lisbon) Mixed by: Gustavo Lenza (Estúdio La Nave, SP, Brazil) Mastered by: Felipe Tichauer (Estúdio Redtraxx, Miami, USA) Executive Producer: Ao Sul do Mundo (Lisbon, Portugal)
Video Credits: Director & DOP: Telmo Soares Camera 1: Telmo Soares Camera 2: Tiago Gomes Producers: Miguel Ferraz and Pedro Marques Editing & Post-Production: Telmo Soares Production Assistant: Patrício Azevedo Hair & Makeup artist: Rafaela Fonseca Wardrobe: Samissone & Édecostume
Special thanks to: Tia Olga Santos, Samissone ℗ & C 2020 – Ao Sul do Mundo
To love is… to say no to war, in the various forms it takes in our globe. The first single from “Liwoningo”, is a composition of mine in partnership with the Mozambican Cheny Wa Gune and Mbye Ebrima from Gambia. Recorded by the producer of “Mati”, the dutchman Jori Collignon, with the production of the brazilian Kastrup, this is a universal theme that touches us all in a clear cry of “no guns”.
The armament, the laws, the super powers and the responsibility that the heads of state, governors and that each one of us entails in not being silent in a world that seeks peace and light.
In my home country, they never grow to maturity, It’s such a beautiful place, There’s too little love Help us, God We ask for Peace.
Credits
Music video Directed and Produced by Casota Collective Starring Gerson Sanca
Song Credits: Music composed by: Selma Uamusse, Mbye Ebrima, Cheny Wa Gune Selma Uamusse and Cheny Wa Gune – Vocals Kastrup – Drums e background vocals Mbye Ebrima – Kora Milton Gulli – Guitar Gonçalo Santuns – Rhodes and Synth Augusto Macedo – Bass Nataniel Melo – Sabar Tcholl, Sabar Mbang and Tama João Salgueirinho – broken glass Music Produced by : Kastrup ( Estúdio Toca do Tatu, SP, Brazil ) Recorded by : Jori Collignon ( Le Garage, Palmela ) Vocals recorded by : Hugo Santos ( Estúdio Nascer do Som, Lisbon) Mixed by : Gustavo Lenza ( Estúdio La Nave , SP, Brazil) Mastered by : Felipe Tichauer ( Estúdio Redtraxx , Miami, USA) Executive Producer: Ao Sul do Mundo ( Lisbon, Portugal)
Video Credits: Director of Photography: Telmo Soares Camera assistant: Rui Gaspar Producers: Miguel Ferraz and Pedro Marques Editing & Post-Production: Telmo Soares
Special Thanks to: Mariana Lois Ⓟ & Ⓒ 2020 – Ao Sul do Mundo
