Francisco de Pina Santana, Brava, 1955 Instrumentalist (drums), singer, songwriter Born on the island of Brava, Frank de Pina spent his childhood in the city of Praia, where he lived from the age of 6 to 18. As a teenager, he participated as a drummer in the group Os Vulcânicos. Read more…
José António Barbosa Silva Praia, Santiago, 1950 – USA, 2019 Singer, songwriter Living in the USA since 1975, where he owned a construction company, José Silva released the album Subi montanha, with production and arrangements by Ramiro Mendes, who plays several instruments, as well as Zunga Pinheiro. In 1985, as 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…
Jose Alberto Rodrigues Silva Mindelo, São Vicente, 1953 – New Bedford, USA, 2005 Songwriter, singer Djô d’Eloy grew up in a musical family (nephew of Eddy Moreno and Djuta Silva) and this is how his cousin Val Xalino remembers certain family nights: “My father Armando on the guitar, his mother Read more…
José Vieira Duarte Mindelo, São Vicente, 1934 Singer Vocalist of Voz de Cabo Verde between the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, Djosinha was always characterized, in this group and as a solo artist, by the versality of his repertoire – filled with sambas, samba-songs, cumbias and 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…
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, 1936 – San Diego, California, USA, 1991 Singer, songwriter Margo Sylvia was the lead singer of The Tune Weavers, which in 1957 achieved huge success with their first single, which featured the song “Happy, Happy Birthday Baby”, which sold around 2 million copies over the years. The 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…
Michael Antunes New Bedford, USA, 1940 Instrumentalist (saxophone), actor The saxophonist Michael “Tunes” Antunes started his professional career in 1960 and is still active, having passed his 80th birthday. He participated in the John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band, which was responsible for the soundtrack of the movie Eddie Read more…