"Her Cape Verde tradition is as soft and sensitive as a Laura Nyro ballad, it’s a smoky, dive bar Cape Verde of subtle progressions and syncopations, of Rickie Lee Jones harmonies and Diana Krall Crooning... The result is a mellow but musically complex record that sounds pleasant at first and gets progressively more interesting on each subsequent listen.
by Alex Robinson, SONGLINES, UK

"Cultured singer who puts her own jazz spin on the music of her ancestral home, Cape Verde."
by Clive Davis, THE TIMES, UK

"Cape Verdean musical riches abound on Carmen Souza's Forthcoming album, Verdade ... distinctive fusion of classic, lilting Cape Verdean musical forms and Jazz."
Five Best gigs to see by Tim Cumming at THE INDEPENDENT Uk

"Smouldering Cape Verdean afrobeat tinged folk jazz"
TIME OUT UK

" Verdade (Truth) is a crisply produced acoustic album... Carmen Souza is carving her own little Afro European jazz niche here — smooth but not too soft, mellow without being too laid back, and with a neat approach to song craft..."
by Con Murphy, FLY UK

"... what makes Carmen Souza sound unique is her compositions and her «Soul» Diva voice, that creates a kind of Contemporary Jazz based on the warmth and energy of the African melody."
by Nádia Morais on África Today Magazine, Portugal

"Die junge kapverdische Sängerin Carmen Souza hat ein wunderbar ausdrucksstarkes, zugleich zurückgenommenes, fast erotisches Stimmorgan... Die Musik ist durchdacht, intelligent, auf handgespielte Gitarren, Bässe und Drums konzentriert. Aber immer wieder auch auf die unverzichtbare Perkussionsinstrumente, die den kulturellen Hintergrund und die große musikalische und kulturelle Bedeutung des winzigen Inselstaates, den Kapverdischen Inseln, untermauern... Wer auf kapverdische Musik steht, wird sich bei “Verdade“ zu Hause fühlen."
7/10 by Michael Arens at SOULTRAIN, Germany