Birth of B.Léza, in São Vicente, on December 3rd.
Birth of Baltasar Lopes da Silva, on April 23rd.
Visit to Cabo Verde by the Royal Prince Dom Luiz Filippe. The composer José Bernardo Alfama dedicated a song to him. Behind the tribute, Alfama talks about poverty and the problems of education in Cabo Verde.
“Nhô Dom Luiz Filipe ! (“Mr. Dom Luiz Filippe!)
Nhô fazê um z’móla (Give some charity)
Nhô deixâ nês terra (That you leave in this land)
Nem qu’é só um scóla (Even if it is just a school)
(…)
Nhô Dom Luiz Filipe! (Mr. Dom Luiz Filippe!)
Nhô qu’é branco fino (You who are a fine white man)
Câ nhô ‘squecê di nôs (Don’t you forget about us)
Nem di nôs distino…” (Or of our destiny…”)
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Regicide in Portugal. On February 1st, King Dom Carlos 1 and his son, Prince Dom Luiz Filippe are assassinated .
Publication, by José Bernardo Alfama, of Canções Crioulas e Músicas Populares de Cabo Verde (Creole Songs and Popular Music from Cabo Verde), a booklet with verses and scores of songs.
Raboita di Rubon Manel: a peasant rebellion against large landowners in the interior of Santiago. The popular memory remains of the war cry: “Omi faka, mudjer matxadu, mininus tudu ta djunta pedra (Men with knives, women with axes, children gathering rocks”).
“Kenha ki bem ki ta bai (those that came will go)” (by Kim de Santiago) alludes to the event, as does “Raboita di Rubon Manel” by Orlando Pantera.
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Implantation of the republican regime in Portugal on October 5, 1910, the result of the revolution organized by the Portuguese Republican Party that overthrew the monarchy.
Birth of Jotamonte, on October 1st.
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World War I, the result of conflicts between the great European powers.
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Spanish Flu: pandemic influenza virus affected about a quarter of the world’s population.
In São Vicente, an instrumental morna by an unknown author registered the influenza pandemic: it was entitled “Gripe (Flu)”.
Birth of the pianist and composer Tututa, on January 6th, in São Vicente.
Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral fly from Portugal to Brazil, with a stopover in São Vicente. Ti Goy will compose the morna “Dois Aeronautas” in honor of the Portuguese aviators.
Birth of Fernando Quejas, in Praia city, Santiago, on April 30th.
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The US bans illiterate people from entering its territory, with restrictive laws that started in 1919, which is a hard blow for Cabo Verdeans, who had their main destination for emigration there.
Birth in São Vicente, on February 13th, of Djunga de Biluca, pioneer in Cabo Verdean emigration to Europe, anti-colonial fighter and founder of Morabeza Records, in Rotterdam.
In New York, on the Columbia label, Johnny Perry’s Portuguese Criolo Trio makes the first recording of an album with Cabo Verdean music. By 1935, other groups formed by Cabo Verdeans will make gramophone records: Abrew’s Portuguese Instrumental Trio and Orchestra da Notias.
Death of Eugénio Tavares, on June 1st, in the Ilha Brava.
Birth of Morgadinho, in the Praia Branca, São Nicolau.
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Porto Colonial Exhibition presents products and cultural expressions from its colonies.
Porto Colonial Exposition: Cabo Verde’s representation includes a group of musicians, dancers and artisans, under the leadership of Luís Rendall.
The Cabo Verdean group’s performance is featured on the front pages of Portuguese newspapers.
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The invasion of Poland by the Germans on September 1st, 1939, triggered the Second World War. Started in Europe, it spread to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, involving nations on all continents.
Birth of Humbertona, on February 17th, in Santo Antão; birth of Codé di Dona, on July 10th, in Santiago; birth of Celina Pereira, on September 10th, in Boa Vista.
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Exhibition of the Portuguese World, in Lisbon, to commemorate the foundation of the Portuguese State (1140) and the Restoration of Independence (1640). A group led by B.Léza represents Cape Verde.
Death of Pedro Cardoso, on October 30th, in the city of Praia.
Release of Fernando Quejas first album in Portugal, orchestrated by maestro Joaquim Luís Gomes, in which the singer realizes his dream of seeing morna played by an orchestra.
June 6th, in Santa Catarina, Santiago, Norberto Tavares is born.
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Founding of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde (PAIGC).
Death of B.Léza, on June 14th.
“When we have the objectivity to gauge your true measure, then, B.Léza, you will be an almost mystical figure for what our people understand best, and you have interpreted like no one else: the lyrical encounter with the horizons hidden behind everyday hardships.”
Baltasar Lopes da Silva, at the microphone of Radio Barlavento, on the night of June 14th, 1958.
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In Cuba, the armed, guerrilla movement led by Fidel Castro ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista on January 1st.
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Start of armed struggle against Portuguese colonialism in Angola, Guinea Bissau, and Mozambique.
Launching of the instrumental album Cabo-Verdianos na Holanda (Cabo Verdeans in Holland), first edition of Casa Silva, by Djunga de Biluca, a label that later became Morabeza Records.
Ao mesmo tempo, nasce o grupo Voz de Cabo Verde, nessa fase embrionária com a designação Os Verdianos.
Birth of Orlando Pantera (Orlando Monteiro Barreto), in Santa Cruz, Santiago , on November 1st.
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Che Guevara’s October 9th Assassination.
Assassination of Amílcar Cabral, on January 20, in Guiné-Conacri.
Guinea-Bissau was the first Portuguese colony in Africa to declare independence, on September 24, which was only recognized by Portugal a year later.
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In Portugal, on April 25, a military uprising puts an end to the regime of António Salazar. The date is also known as the Carnation Revolution.
Death of Luís Rendall, on December 4th.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall , on November 9th.
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On February 11th, 1990 Nelson Mandela is released after 27 years in prison. South Africa’s first free, multiracial elections will be held in 1994, marking the end of the apartheid regime. Mandela is elected president.
First multiparty elections in Cabo Verde, with the winning party being the Movement for Democracy (MpD).
Death of Ti Goy, on June 17, in São Vicente.
Release of Miss Perfumado (Perfumed Lady), the album that launches Cesária Évora‘s international career.
Founding of the Simentera Group.
Death of Frank Cavaquinho, on May 2nd, in Roterdão, Holanda
