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Flash Vierra Tavares

Feliciano "Flash" Vierra Tavares, known as "Flash" came from a family of 10 siblings, 8 girls and 2 boys. His father was born in Santiago and his mother on Sao Nicolau in the Cape Verde Islands. The family lived in the midst of the Cape Verdean community in Fox Point. Music was an important part of their lives He started playing on a homemade ukulele made from a cigar box and four elastics. He got his idea to make his ukulele from Jaffa's second hand store on South Main Street in Providence. He received his first guitar at the age of seven. It had only two strings and was donated to him by the Salvation Army, while he was collecting firewood for his parents to burn at home. Flash was a self-taught musician by listening to the radio and anything he could get his hands on. He began playing with a "jump group" led by Walter Williams and the Hep-cats. After he left Walter's band, he started playing with Cape Verdean musicians. The first Cape Verdean band he played in was led by a stevedore named Tony. The band changed leaders several times eventually coming to Flash, who was doing all the lead vocals at the time, often accompanied by his sister Vickie. Feliciano Vierra Tavares took "Flash Vierra" as a stage name, dropping the Tavares. This group toured throughout New England and New York in the 1940's. Flash moved to New Bedford and became a guitar player for the Jimmy Barros band, which led to a trip to California, where they visited two cities, Sacramento and San Francisco. At this time the song "Sacramente" was composed. The song was written and performed by all of the members of the Jimmy Barros group, inspired by the reception they received at the home of a fellow Cape Verdean named Lilly. In California they appeared at dance halls and VFW's throughout the Bay area. Returning from California Flash returned to Fox Point where he rejoined the Creole Sextet. He and his sister Vickie continued to be featured singers with various local Cape Verdean bands. Their close harmony and phrasing made them well known and popular in American Cape Verdean music. Flash has performed for many dances, celebrations and events in the Cape Verdean community throughout the years, often contributing his talent for good causes. In 1995 Flash Tavares performed with the Cape Verdean American Dance Band in the Cape Verdean Connection at the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife. In 1996, he participated in the So Sabi Festival sponsored by the Boston Center for the Arts. He is featured on the CD, "So Sabi: Cape Verdean Music from New England". Flash is the father of the members of the Rhythm and Blues group Tavares. He now resides in Hyannis, Massachusetts in semi-retirement with his wife Grace and still turns out to entertain at the age of 87. taken from www.capeverdeanmuseum.org