Carmina Juarez is a young singer with strong vocal possibilities. Daughter of the renowned conductor Benito Juarez, that fact accounts for her educated, limpid voice and for the excellent taste in her interpretations of some of the most beautiful classics of the Brazilian masters, like the samba-de-roda baiano "Arrasta a sandália," the sambas "Rugas," Noel Rosa's "O maior castigo que te dou," the ponto de candomblé "Ponto de Oxum," and the forró "Vira e mexe," among other jewels. The broad range of styles implicitly evidences her versatility. The sometimes delicate, sometimes hot and swinging arrangements, either rural or cosmopolitan, traditional or modern, all strongly Brazilian, recover the true identity of a rich cultural tradition so unfairly treated nowadays. ~ Alvaro Neder