Seeing her hunched over the computer on a bench at the airport, seeing her in the same position at a train station, no one would suspect. Most likely, in fact, no one even noticed. Sitting there, she was just another person hunched over a screen, given over to the most contemporary way of passing time, wasting time, wasting time. We weren’t there, but we now know what Ana Lua Caiano was doing during those long waiting times that marked the trips to the Europa concerts that followed the edition of I will stay in this squarethe remarkable debut album that led Gonçalo Frota to exclaim in Ípsilon in 2024: “We needed a voice like that”.
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