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 – Mindelo, São Vicente, 2026 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 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
Félix Edmund Barboza USA, 1914 – USA, 1993 Instrumentalist (trumpet) Phill Barboza is one of the North American musicians of Cape Verdean origin whose artistic career falls within the world of jazz, but who still maintains a connection with the music of the land of the ascendants – his father Read more
Group (1920s – 1930s) Orchestra de Notias was one of several Cape Verdean groups that existed in the United States in the 1920s/1930s. Its leader was the violinist Cândido Almeida, “Notias”. Between 1929 and 1935, three groups formed by Cape Verdeans made a set of forty recordings at the Columbia Read more
Albert Oliveira Lopes New Bedford, USA, 1917 – New Bedford, EUA, 1988 Instrumentalist (strings), music publisher Enterprising musician that founded his own orchestra and label. Al Lopes is appointed by Joli Gonsalves in his text included in the book A Salute to the Cape Verdean Musicians and Their Music (Ron Read more
Paul Pena Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA, 1950 – San Francisco, California, USA, 2005 Instrumentalist (guitar), composer, singer “From all the sons of the Cape Verdean community in America that had some success in music, Paul Pena (originally Pina) is without a doubt the most intriguing and curious case”. Writes the journalist Read more