Group, 2002-2003 In 2002, the II Congress of Cape Verdean Cadres In the Diaspora (a periodic meeting organized by Cape Verdean emigrants) decided to pay tribute to the group Voz de Cabo Verde (I) by momentarily bringing together its members in the archipelago. The original lineup was nearly complete, with Read more…
Group, 1972-1985 “So Bana said: ‘We’re not going to end, we’re going to get back together’. At that time, Bana had financial backing, so he started looking for another Voz de Cabo Verde”, says Luís Morais (Cabo Verde e a Música – Dicionário de Personagens). Luís Morais and Frank Cavaquinho were the Read more…
Group, 1965-1970 Voz de Cabo Verde became famous in the 1960s and continued to evolve for the next 30 years. Based on electric instruments, its initial members included Luís Morais (clarinet, saxofone, and flute), Morgadinho (trumpet), Toy d’Bibia (guitar), Jean da Lomba (bass) and Frank Cavaquinho (drums). Frank, who had already been in the Netherlands since 1964 and Read more…
Group – 1970s – (?) Ecos de Cabo Verde was formed in Brockton, and in its first phase included the keyboardist from Mindelo, Tony Óscar (keys and vocals, ex- Voz de Cabo Verde and ex-Matchona), Manuel Andrade “Mané Criola” (vocals) and Inocêncio do Canto “Duchy” (solo guitar), both from Fogo, Read more…
Group, 1956 Familiar group formed in Boston by descendants of Cape Verdeans, The Tune Weavers achieve great success with the song “Happy, Happy Birthday Baby”, released in 1957, at the height at the doo-wop period (a style of vocal music based on R&B that emerged among the North American black Read more…
Group, (?) The Verda-Tones was a group formed in the Cape Verdean community in the USA. It was led by Toi Grace. The group appears on the album Sos Sabi: Cape Verdean Music from New England. The group’s lineup on this recording is: Toi Grace (voice and maracas), Alfredo B. Read more…
Group (1960s) – [?] Joli Gonsalves (voice), Al Lopes (guitar), J. Lombardi (violin), Young Boboi (saxophone), Chico Tass (?) and F. Ponte (maracas) were the members of this group formed in the USA and that appears in the collective album So Sabi: Cape Verdean Music from New England. In the Read more…
Group, 1930 The Skyliners Big Band was formed in 1930, as a dance section of the Cape Verdean Ultramarine Band Club (which was not a lounge band but rather a band of street performances, in parades and commemorative events), according to A Salute to the Cape Verdean Musicians and Their Read more…
Group 1930 – (?) Big band formed by Cape Verdeans or descendants in the New England region in the U.S.A during the “swing era”, 1930’s. Joe Livramento was a member of the orchestra during his youth.
Group (1920s – 1930s) Orchestra de Notias was one of several Cape Verdean groups that existed in the United States in the 1920s/1930s. Its leader was the violinist Cândido Almeida, “Notias”. Between 1929 and 1935, three groups formed by Cape Verdeans made a set of forty recordings at the Columbia Read more…