Elida Almeida

Elida Almeida (born 1993) is a Cape Verdean singer.

Elida was born in Pedra Badejo in the east of Santiago Island. She spent her childhood years with some difficulty, in the mountains of Santiago. At 17, she sang at church, she listened to the radio, she sad on that she grew up on a place without electricity or necessities. She worked on radio commentaries especially with DJs and presentators. She started writing her album Nta Konsiqui

She later presented at local cponcerts and sang at bars in Cape Verde where she started her career. The producer José da Silva, a resident of France with Cape Verdean origins, previously worked with Cesária Évora was interested in his career, her style is very different for the most famous Cape Verdean morna-coladeira singer, more influenced by funaná, batuque, rhythms created by deserted slaves decades ago, but has a different similarity for the expression. Two years after, she made her first album Ora doci, Ora margos, in December 2014, she sang in Portugal and France, later she did her first concerts in France and the United States. In 2015, she took parrt at Festival Musiques Métisses in Angoulême, and for fir first time at stage in Paris in the same month. On November 2015, she was designated a laureateat the RFi awards, made by the jury chaired by the Malian singer Oumou Sangaré. She produced mainly on the African continent even at the start of the Festival des musiques urbaines d'Anoumabo (FEMUA - Anoumabo Urban Music Festival) in Abidjan.

Elida Almeida was present at the 2016 Cabo Verde Music Awards (CVMA) together with Hélio Batalha. A month later, she went to the 10th edition of JazzKif, the Kinshasa Jazz Festival.

She collaborates with Nelly Cruz, a bass guitarist, Diego Gomes with keys, Magik Santiago with the frums and Hernani Almeida, a guitarist. They produced her first album Ora doci, ora morgas