Juarês de Mira, Afro-Brazilian Singer of Spirituals

[Photo from website of Juarês De Mira, http://www.negrospirituals.redeesperanto.net/JuaresTeatroSPprograma.htm]

Juarês de Mira is an Afro-Brazilian bass who specializes in African American spirituals arranged by Henry Thacker Burleigh and other American composers. He contacted us about two years ago, and offered us the use of audio samples of seven songs arranged by Burleigh. They can be found on the Henry Burleigh page of AfriClassical.com, and on the website's Audio page. The titles are:

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
Go Down Moses
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
I Want To Be Ready
De Gospel Train
Deep River

Today we learned of brief audio clips of 14 spirituals sung by Juarês de Mira, with piano accompaniment by Luciano Filizola, at this website:

http://www.negrospirituals.redeesperanto.net/12musica.htm

Juarês de Mira has provided us with links to three online videos of his full-length performances of spirituals, and invited us to bring his singing to the public's attention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUyhNMHdNkU

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1404374tkTynwHz

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=16919529

We hope to have further information on the singer in the near future.

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