Manuel de Jesus Lopes Ribeira Grande, Santo Antão, 1938 – Mindelo, São Vicente, 2009 Instrumentalist (string), composer Manuel d’Novas is considered one of the greatest composers in Cape Verde, he is responsible for more than 120 compositions, most of those has successive reinterpretations. His lyrics show that he was an Read more…
Norberto dos Santos Tavares Assomada, Santiago, 1956 – New Bedford, EUA, 2010 Multiinstrumentista, cantor, compositor Norberto dos Santos Tavares was born in Assomada, Santiago Island in 1956 and died in New Bedford, USA in 2010. He was an instrumentalist, singer and composer. He is considered a reference to artists from Read more…
Cesária Joana Évora Mindelo, São Vicente, 1941 – Mindelo, São Vicente, 2011 Singer First Cape Verdean to become an international celebrity, Cesária Évora put Cape Verde in the map, in the turn of the 20th to the 21st century. In a time that the media phenomena depend mostly on the Read more…
Carlos Alberto Gonçalves Moreno Musician (guitar), composer, music producer Boa Vista, São Domingos, 1965 Calu di Guida, born in São Domingos, had early contact with music due to his familiarity with figures such as Codé di Dona, Ntóni Denti d’Oru, and Ano Nobo, the last two being compadres of his Read more…
Gláucia Nogueira * Translated by Sandra St. Laurent The written references regarding Cape Verdean migration to the United States go back to the 19th century, but it is supposed that the migration flux started in the 18th century. At the time, whalers operating in the Atlantic Ocean sought workers, and Read more…
João José de Azevedo Pinheiro Nova Sintra, Ilha Brava, 1948 Instrumentist (guitar), composer Vuca Pinheiro begins his discography in 1985, with the album Força di Cretcheu, in which he presents mornas soloed on the guitar, favoring composers from his beloved island of Brava in his choice of repertoire: Eugénio Tavares, Read more…
Some works in English on Cabo Verdean music Barboza, Ronald. A salute to the Cape Verdean musicians and their music. New Bedford: Documentation and Computerization of the Cape Verdeans, 1989. Hoffman, JoAnne, “Diasporic Networks, Political Change, and the Growth of Cabo-Zouk Music”. In Jørgen Carling & Luís Batalha (eds.), Transnational Read more…
Band, 1978 – Dec 2000; 2016 The band Bulimundo appears to the City of Praia’s public in 1980, as the first in a series of concerts organized at the Cine theater of the capital to celebrate the five years of independence of Cabo Verde. Until then, the band had been Read more…
Candida Rose Baptista New Bedford, USA, 1960 Singer, songwriter, educator Candida Rose In addition to a long artistic career as a vocalist of various genres, including R&B, spiritual, and jazz, Candida Rose has also become known as a Cape Verdean musical artist and educator. She is the granddaughter of Cape Read more…
Even though Cape Verdean music is majority produced in part by self-taught musicians, or whose learning was based on informal playing with family and friends, having as teachers or role models, parents, uncles, siblings or friends. It is not true, how sometimes is said, that music teaching is recent in Read more…