Djo d’Eloy

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…

Djosinha

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…

Don Verdi Orchestra

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.