{"id":6721,"date":"2025-08-28T09:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandralourenco.pt\/?page_id=6721"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:49:21","slug":"press-release-contraste","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandralourenco.pt\/pt\/media\/press-release-contraste\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release Contraste"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f Press Release: New Single by Sandra Louren\u00e7o \u201cContraste\u201d \u2013 dedicated to everyone who lost a friend<\/h1>\n\t
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FOR RELEASE ON AUGUST 29th 2025<\/strong>
August 2025 | Set\u00fabal, Portugal<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cContraste\u201d<\/strong> is the forth single by Portuguese singer-songwriter and visual artist Sandra Louren\u00e7o<\/strong>. This time in Portuguese, Sandra explores the turbulent emotions that followed the collapse of a 16-year relationship\u2014where love, memory, and loss collide with anger, rage, and the painful realization of being erased from someone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Release Date: <\/strong>August 29th 2025<\/p>\n

Label:<\/strong> Bullet Productions<\/p>\n

All Instruments\/ Vocals:<\/strong> Sandra Louren\u00e7o<\/p>\n

Writer:<\/strong> Sandra Louren\u00e7o<\/p>\n

ISRC:<\/strong> QZZ762507409<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

\ud83c\udfa7 About the Song<\/h3>\n\t
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What began as a song of heartbreak transformed into a wider meditation on grief. While finishing the recording of “Contraste”<\/strong>, Sandra\u2019s former therapist and dear friend passed away from cancer<\/strong>, layering the song with another dimension of mourning. The result is a track that begins softly in sadness, then builds into intensity, mirroring the rise from despair to defiance.<\/p>\n

With lyrics full of double meanings, Contraste<\/em> is both literal and poetic\u2014navigating the tension between what was given and what was left behind.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis song began as my way of processing heartbreak\u2014anger, grief, and the haunting question of whether what we lived really mattered. But while finishing it, I lost a great friend. She was my guide, my therapist and became so much more. That grief merged with the song, giving it a new weight. Contraste<\/em> is about how we all process pain in a different way, what we lose, what we keep, and the ways we find ourselves again in the space between.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Experience the emotional journey of ‘Contraste’ by streaming it now:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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