GabrielL X BonVida X Criola Cacheada

This collaboration happened after meeting BonVida, a super talented Cape Verdean movie director based in L.A, California. He shared his experience on audio engineering and production in the motion picture industry. After I expressed my interest on the subject, he reached out a couple of weeks later and invited me to work with him on a commercial for a hair product brand “Criola Cacheada” based in Brockton MA he was working on as the director.

I was responsible to create and manipulate sounds on the commercial.

GabrielL X Gilbert Albert Community Center

GACC brief story
The Gilbert Albert Community Center was established in 2005 by Mrs. Albert with the purpose of educating immigrants in the Greater Boston area on how education promotes a healthy, vibrant, and flourishing community. For over a decade, Mrs. Albert has been playing a crucial role in the development of her community, becoming one of the most impactful female role models in her community.

During the summer of 2021, I was invited to teach music to kids ranging the ages of 10 to 14 years old at Gilbert Albert Community Center.
To me, it was a challenge and an adventure to teach music to kids as a summer program, that I gladly accepted. My students were up to date with the most popular songs of the year. I perceived how much of an influence Hip Hop is to their generation, so I used it to teach them about music and technology.

Towards the end of the summer program each student produced and wrote a song which they performed to their parents at the end of the program. I collaborated with Mrs. Neusa, an English Language teacher and Mr. Kern, a visual arts teacher to make the students’ final presentation an interesting combination of poetry, painting, and music.

At the end of the event, many parents thanked me for the opportunity to have such a beautiful and loving moment with their kids. That and so many other aspects made it a life changing experience that reinforced to me the colossal power music has on connecting different generations inside a family.
 

GabrielL X RapK

RapK is the number one Cape Verdean online Rap/Hip Hop music library in the world. It has a wide range of content that promotes the Hip Hop culture created by Cape Verdean artists and spreads it all over the globe.

This project was created in 2018 by Ailton Nascimento also known as Mozz Boss, a creative and a Cape Verdean Creole Hip Hop lover. He invited me to be part of the project and since then we’ve collaborated in several different innovative projects including “Rap ID”, “RapK Cypher”, “RapK Radio”, “RapKonhecimentu“.

As an active RapK collaborator I could see the exponential growth of the Cape Verdean Hip Hop community through time and the possibilities of what it could become.

Therefore, me and my RapK partners have been giving our contribution on laying the grounds for a solid and more productive future for Cape Verdean Creole Hip Hop.

GabrielL X Black Castle Music

BCM is a Cape Verdean music label based is Brockton, MA.

I was one of the producers and engineer at Black Castle, working mostly on genres like HipHop and Afro music. I worked with different artists from this given label like S.Represent, BtheBoss, Tony Medina, Jay Jay, Zoocatti to name a few.

While working with BCM, I was one of the 5 Red Carpet Award 2019 nominees for Best Producer with multiple works in different categories. At the end of the night BCM’s “Na Tutu” performed by BtheBoss and co-produced by Zoocatti and me, got the award for most popular song of the year.

GabrielL X Dope Studio

In October 2020, Dope Studio, a recording studio and one of the most prolific urban brands in Cape Verde, based in Praia, Cape Verde, hosted a rap battle contest titled “FlowBattle”. During that event rappers and MCs would compete against each other on a rhyme’s improvisation battle.

I contributed to the project producing beats that MCs freestyled to.

Also, me and Dj Rango, DopeStudio’s in house producer, have collaborated on different projects where I engineered for a couple of artists that work with Dope Studio Label.

GabrielL X Jap Pires

Jap Pires is a Cape Verdean rapper that focuses his work on community and social problems. We’ve been collaborating for the past decade and contributing to each other’s growth. Jap invited me to be the producer of a song that was part of a social awareness campaign he was working on named “Ko Dizizti di Bo Me” which roughly translates to “Don’t Give Up on Yourself”.

“Ko dizizti di bo me” – “Don’t give up on yourself”

As the title suggests, the music is about one’s self-love and strength on dealing with depression, one of the biggest health problems in the past decade. Jap Pires took this campaign across continent to Europe (Portugal), South America (Brazil), Africa (Angola) and hosted multiple seminars in high schools and colleges throughout Cape Verde islands.

GabrielL X Thairo Kosta X Monoparental

Thairo Kosta is a 4 times award winner at the CVMA (the most important award in Cape Verde) Cape Verdean artist, resident in the US. His music is heavily inspired by Cape Verdean traditional music like Finason and Batuku.

He launched Monoparental as an awareness campaign to a social problem that has been tauting the Capeverdean community for generations. The song is a dedication to all single mothers that struggles every day to support their family. In the song Thairo speaks of himself as a kid that was raised with lack of love due continuous conflict between his parents.

Me and Thairo Kosta produced, arranged the record, and envisioned a strategy to get community leaders and the Cape Verdean government representatives involved in the project.

With the support of many CapeVerdean public figures Thairo was able to create a video campaign for his campaign.

GabrielL X Recruit Money Movement

Recruit Money Movement is a recording label based in Boston, M.A founded by Dough Boy Savage – CEO and artist – that includes a group of artists in the Hip Hop genre. With Capeverdean and Angolan roots, Recruit Money Movement has been making its way to broad audience across the Atlantic.

I I engineered the “Sta Manda” Mixtape by Dough Savage, a compilation of Hip Hop and Drill featuring 10 Hip Hop artists.

GabrielL X FEIA TV

FEIA TV is a Cape Verdean multimedia company, founded by SOS Mucci. They have an outstanding quality of work and is the home for artists like ChrisPS, Jonatthon, Sonya, Nilson Andrade, 3dson, Flavio Lucio and more.

In 2020 I engineered and produced for Sos Mucci and Chris PS, songs like (Fika Li Ku Mi, Lisboa, Koroa, Liberdadi), some of the most popular songs of the year in Cape Verde and Cape Verdean diaspora.

GabrielL X YoungFiloPresents

Marcos Semedo also known as MarcosTheMrKrazy is the founder of YoungFiloPresents, a multimedia company. He is mostly known for creating out of the box visuals and ideas. We have been collaborating for the past decade.

In 2014 me and MrKrazy worked with a very talented young artist “Charles II”, owner of a strong and unique singing voice. The first song I produced for him was “Mudjer”, which shared a much-needed message at the time about female empowerment. MrKrazy took the project to the next level by producing a music video for the song.

After multiple radio stations and tv plays, “Mudjer” started to gain attention of people in the music industry. For example, Eder Xavier, one of the most successful and beloved Cape Verdean artists from the new generation and an entrepreneur, invited us over for a meeting.He expressed how much he liked Charles’ song and further added that the song would be perfect for an upcoming concert celebrating female empowerment featuring several of the greatest artists in Cape Verde.