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Photo by Guy Gooch For London-based Portuguese artist Raquel Martins, the idea of home has never been a fixed point. At seventeen, she left Porto for London with a guitar and a quiet determination to make music – a move that would eventually shape her sound as much as her sense of self. Blending the warmth of rhythms with the intimacy of alternative jazz and the texture of lo-fi indie, her music feels like a dialogue between worlds: nostalgic yet forward-looking, grounded yet