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…
Orchestra, circa 1930s The Duke Oliver’s Creole Vagabonds – name it had initially, changing it later to Duke Oliver’s Orchestra – it’s one of the big bands formed by Cape Verdeans in the golden period of dance music with big orchestras, the swing era. According to Ron Barboza in A 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.