De Souza | en
The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Chris Morris, De Souza draws on the influences from nights in dark dingy nightclubs, smoke filled jazz venues and the bright lights of festival main stages.
De Souza have enlisted the vocal talents of Shena, who has featured on numerous hits in the UK and Europe including Michael Gray’s UK Top 10 hit The Weekend. Guilty is a dazzling house anthem that screams of summer time. Remixes come from Bimbo Jones who adds a bouncier bassline, whilst Eddie Thoneik messes with the tempo for a darker journey and arrangement that takes it in a totally different...
Carmen was born 27 years ago in Lisbon within a Christian family from Cape Verde. Very young she experienced the "Sodade" feeling of missing someone with the long absence of her father due to his work at sea. She grew up in a mixed environment of Creole, the Cape Verde dialect her parents spoke at home, and Portuguese, always surrounded by the capeverdean way of life. Carmen started singing professionally at the age of 17 in a Lusophone Gospel Choir and since then she participated in several projects from Funky to Soul, Jazz and World music, with whom she toured...
While Karen Souza´s voice may sound like it was made for jazz, she is in fact a relative newcomer to this genre of music. Her career began under various psydeonymns as she provided vocal support to a number of electronic music producers and was part of several International House hits.
She can be found singing under these pseudonymns on albums such as Pacha Ibiza, FTV (FashionTV), Paris Dernier, Hotel Costes and Privé. She had just begun to flirt with the idea of singing to jazz when she was contacted and invited to join the production of the first volume of...
