Mario Lucio

Mário Lúcio Sousa is founder and leader of the musical group Simentera, which marked a turning point back towards acoustic music in Cape Verde and claimed continental African culture as an element of Cape Verdean cultural identity. He is a multi-instrumentalist and arranger of various albums by Cape Verdean solo artists. He is founder and director of the Quintal da Música Cultural Association, whose private cultural center works for the valorization of traditional music and children's access to learning and the promotion of their talents.