Dela Marmy

Joana Sequeira Duarte (aka Dela Marmy) is an artist with roots in Trás-os-Montes, Beira Baixa, Porto and Lisbon. She was part of the band The Happy Mess, on synthesizers and vocals, and later embarked on a solo career, making her debut under the name Dela Marmy in 2019. From then on, she developed a music where dreamier pop cohabits with more alternative rock or folk, while on stage the songs gain color, volume and a performative body, or she wouldn't have been involved in dance for many years. She dances as she sings, a mixture of delicacy, charm and truth.

The full-length album, the successor to the "Captured Fantasy" and "Dela Marmy" EPs, is available on all streaming platforms in digital format and in stores with a physical vinyl version. In her new work of originals, the singer-songwriter makes her debut in Portuguese, more exposed and vulnerable than ever before in a set of intimate songs that match the wild and poetic uniqueness of her voice. The album brings together art pop, indie-folk and electronic influences and three singles are already known from it: "E se o Céu se Apagar", "Desejo" and the homonymous track "Acaso".

The show wavers between density and lightness, whether in gestures, words, song or dance. Starting from a poetic, raw, empathetic and political body, and alongside her band made up of drums, bass, keyboards, acoustic and electric guitar, Dela Marmy presents "Acaso", a set of letter-songs in Portuguese, in which the artist reflects on love, search, loss, intimacy, disintegration, desire and hope, highlighting - individually and collectively - the chance with which life presents itself countless times and the possibilities that open up in this surprising spectrum beyond control. A manifesto in clear resistance to the superficial, to individualism, to an uncritical culture, to the dictatorship of the algorithm and to alienation, circumstances that are all too visible these days. With an enveloping sound that combines electronic and acoustic elements around her voluptuous voice, Dela Marmy transports listeners to a territory where imagination (or unreal) and reality cannot be dissociated.