When You're Awake

by Beleza

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Music has the power to move us, inspire us, transform our emotional state, reinforce messages that we need at different moments of our lives.

Feeling fully alive, present and connected to the world is precious.

Our new single “When You’re Awake” celebrates this ephemeral feeling. Appreciating the wonder and magic of light filtering through the trees or a freshly fallen snow are messages I sing to myself to remind me to be present and FEEL the simple, amazing moments in this world.

lyrics

How to paint the magic of a golden sun
sweeping softly through the trees
how to put in words and melody a fallen snow
silence so deep it whispers to your soul

Or the poetry of daybreak
hope renewed with morning’s song

Constance of the rushing stream a reverie
such clarity, the veins of all, our home
How to capture moments far beyond a frame
A life, a world, a song when you’re awake

credits

released December 3, 2021
Madeline Holly-Sales - voice, piano
Humberto O. Sales - guitar, percussion

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Beleza Charlottesville, Virginia

United by musical interests that include samba, funk, soul, blues, bossa, jazz and Spanish flamenco; Humberto Oliveira Sales and Madeline Holly Sales blend the melodic, rhythmic and harmonic riches from North & South America.
Since living in the U.S., Beleza has continued to fuse styles. The resulting concoction was aptly described by a fan as funkalicious samba soul. ... more