Jack Pina
Joaquim de Pina
Fajã d’Água, Brava, 1950s
Singer, songwriter, producer, businessman
Romantic singer, but with an eclectic repertoire where there’s room for the various Cape Verdean rhythms, from morna to funaná, including koladera, and even space for zouk at times and Brazilian music, of which he is an admirer. He recorded the song “Manhã de Carnaval” as a zouk.
Discovering instruments at home as a child, Jack Pina has been hooked on music ever since. He emigrated to Portugal in 1973, where he actively participated in community life, in gatherings and Cape Verdean nights, according to the website www.bravanews.com, which also reveals that in 1978 the artist moved to the USA, where he resided.
Throughout the 1980s, he was a guitarist in the group Agete (wich included Luís Ramos, Nazário Lopes, Titino Santos, Gaga Ramos, Manel de Nha Vinda and others) and accompanied the singer Nho Balta. Still in the 1980s, with the group Os Íntimos, he accompanied Morgadinho, Chico Serra and Cesária Évora in concerts in the USA.
In 1993, Jack Pina releases his first album, Romance, in which he wrote all the songs. It was at that time, after the commercial success of the album and a proposal from Lusafrica to be his distributor, that he decided to create his own company, Ligafrica, based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and it is through his own label that all his albums come out.
Discography
- Romance, CD, Sonovox, Lisbon, 1995.
- Amor, CD, Ligafrica, Pawtucket, 1998.
- Mi cu nha violão, CD, Ligafrica, Pawtucket, 2002.
- Na bu braço, CD, Ligafrica, Pawtucket, 2002.
- Dança romântica, CD, Ligafrica, Pawtucket, 2005.
- Por amor, CD, Ligafrica, Pawtucket, 2007.
