Jack Pina
Joaquim de Pina Fajã d’Água, Brava, 1950s Singer, songwriter, producer, businessman Romantic singer, but with an eclectic repertoire where there’s room for the various Cape Verdean rhythms, from morna to…
CABO VERDE & ITS MUSIC
A VIRTUAL MUSEUM
A deep dive into the universe of Cabo-Verdean music in all its complexity.
Cabo-Verdean musical practices, on the islands or in other places where the diaspora has settled.
Personalities, instruments, stories, memories, documents, musical styles, dances, books, recordings, melodies, lyrics, photos, videos…
Preserving the memory in order to tell the history.
“(…) they suddenly all turned round and covering the path with their shawls, sung with great energy a wild song, beating time with their hands upon their legs. We threw them some vintems [coins], which were received with screams of laughter, and we left them redoubling the noise of their song.”
Charles Darwin in The Voyage of the Beagle, 1839,
about a batuku performance
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Gardénia Benrós
Praia, Santiago, 1960s Singer, songwriter Gardénia Benrós brings together in her work the different musical influences received throughout a journey in which at the age of 16, she found herself…
João Cirilo
João Cirilo Pereira Monteiro Polon de Engenho, Santa Catarina, Santiago, 1954 Singer, songwriter, instrumentalist (harmonica, guitar) Although João Cirilo is always associated with funaná, mornas, koladeras, reggae, and other rhythms…
Tazinho
Protásio Fortes Brito Povoação Velha, Boa Vista, 1932 Guitarrist, songwriter, violinist with discography produced since the 1960s between Holland, Portugal and the United States. Tazinho has in his repertoire original…