Paul Morley's Showing Off: Céu

She mixes African folk, hip hop, electro-pop, swing and Blue Note jazz but has also been picked up by Starbucks. Paul Morley investigates the contradictions of CéuA few hours before she is due to sing at the Hackney Empire in east London as part of a week long survey of music that, whether we like it or not, is packaged as "world", promoted by the Barbican, Céu sits in her dressing room, and patiently puts up with yet more clumsy journalistic attempts to work out just where she belongs. This w...

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