Lura

The women of Big Love will play a big part on the fourth season of the polygamy drama, when it returns to HBO (no date has been set). Big Love creators and executive producers Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer writes to the Los Angeles Times that all the females will be "starting from completely new positions of reality and conflict." This batch of women of Big Love include the strong, potentially violent wife of Roman Grant Adaleen (Mary Kay Place), Bill's mother Lois (Grace Zabriskie), Bill's sister-in-law and wife of Joey Wanda (Melora Walters), Sarah's friend and co-worker Heather (Tina Majorino), and one of Alby's wives Lura (Anne Dudek). "It's a season of rebirths, with all the excitement and danger that implies," says the creators, adding that Margie's (Ginnifer Goodwin) is also doing OK. "She's coming into her own in a way that's unprecedented for her character. Her struggles to reinvent herself in the midst of the patriarchal family system she's a part of is going to resound and echo through the season for her and Bill, and also for the other wives."

Lura was born in Lisbon, but she adopted the music of her parentsa home country, Cape Verde, an island nation about 400 miles off the western coast of Africa.

The native music of Cape Verde is as elusive and disparate as one might expect from an archipelago of 10 islands whose numerous ports are part of the international trade route off Africa's west coast.

The Cape Verdean singer, Lura, Tuesday in Luanda, pledged to parade all her albums, by picking from each of her CDs various songs, thus seeking to please the Angolan public attending her April 9-10 shows at Casa70 music hall.

The Cape Verdean singer, Lura, has scheduled two music shows for April 9-10, in Luanda, at the invitation of the promoting Casa70 agency.

22 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $30/$27. World musician Lura may have been born in Portugal, but musically she's blended the best of many worlds, incorporating her African roots from the Cape Verde Islands with earthy ...

Portuguese singer Lura performs eclectic music that draws on influences from around the globe.

Lura's first trip to the Cape Verde islands in 1996 left an indelible mark on her.