After studying law, the Luxembourger with Portuguese roots cancelled her career plans as a lawyer due to a burnout - and instead developed an extraordinary music career between dark folk, fado and doom metal. Today, Priscila Da Costa not only stands for artistic diversity, but also for the aspiration to build cultural bridges between Luxembourg and Portugal.
Once again, we're early. Our interview partner Priscila Da Costa is still sitting on the restaurant terrace talking to Lucien Elsen, the busy owner of Mesa Verde, about the organisation of the summer concerts there, which have been livening up Heilig-Geist-Street in the upper town for weeks now. As the artist is jointly responsible for organising the concert series, there is naturally a lot to talk about. But the rest of the afternoon belongs to us.
We've already seen a few of Priscila Da Costa's concerts and we've been completely blown away every time. Sometimes she gives us goosebumps with her project Ptolemea, as she did recently in a former church in Lasauvage, with just her voice and her guitar and her mixture of dark folk and fado. Once she opened a concert with Judasz & Nahimana, her richly dark avant-garde duo with Angelo Mangini, for the Canadian cult band Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the Kufa in Esch.
Although the music differs from project to project, yet, with Priscila Da Costa you always feel as if you were witnessing a ritual. "It's something that's hard to explain, but when I'm on stage, there's more going on than just music."
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