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Rossana is 24-year-old Portuguese composer and interpreter Inês Barroso.
Moving to London in 2018, Rossana started releasing music shortly before the pandemic hit, having released her debut jazz EP “Rossana’s Little Box of Feelings” during the first lockdown.
This restrained the project from being presented onstage, apart from the rare but invigorating performances between Lisbon and London. However, with the isolation of yet another lockdown and whilst finding refuge in a quiet seaside village she was drawn the artist to explore the traditional instruments and soundscapes of her origins, sounds that are engraved in the Portuguese way of life.
Exploring these sounds and armed with numerous rustic instruments (as is her handmade Adufe that’s still present in every show) brought upon “Ao Deus Dará”, her second EP comprised of 6 traditional songs rearranged, accompanied by two original compositions within the same sonic environment. This work brought Rossana to a wider audience being named as “…without any doubt one of the most promising names in Portuguese music” by Espalha Factos and leading to multiple shows across Portugal and in several London venues, culminating with selling out the Casa do Alentejo, a beautiful 250-seat royal room in Central Lisbon.
Now, back under London's cloudy skies, Rossana presents The Entertainer, her debut LP that will bring us a collection of the artist's work throughout the past year - a collection of nine contrasting songs that encompass both the jazz and classical influences from previous projects and links them to new glimpses of psychedelia and wonder, culminating in a noir, hypnotic soundscape matched with intense, sincere songwriting.
The main subject of The Entertainer relies on dissecting the love triangle that is the artist, the work and the audience. The need to be heard against the righteousness of needing so.
With only one song in her mother tongue and eight songs in English, The Entertainer is a comprehensive work that reflects the artist’s multitude of influences and experiences in one cohesive piece.