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
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 Baptista, Candida Rose. KabuMerikanus – The Sum of US: Exploring the Cabo Verde/United States Musical Connection and Legacy. New Bedford: author’s edition, 2023. Barboza, Ronald. A salute to the Cape Verdean musicians and their music. New Bedford: Documentation and Computerization of the 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
Gláucia Nogueira and Graham Douglas During the 19thcentury, European music (polka, mazurka, waltz, gallop, etc) and other expressions related to dance styles (cotillon, contradança, quadrilha) arrived in Cabo Verde and were the usual types of entertainment until the 1940s. From that point on, they were supplanted by new musical trends. Read more
Gláucia Nogueira and Graham Douglas Funaná has relatively recent origins and a rich history of transformation. In its first iteration, it was performed with a diatonic button accordion, locally called a gaita, with the accompaniment of the fero, or ferinho, a metal bar struck and scraped with a knife or Read more
Possibly related to the koladera, or resulting from a similar process, is the talaia baxu, taking its name from the town of Atalaia de Baixo, on the island of Fogo, where it probably originated, and is highly popular. In its tempo is very close to the koladera. Also, like the Read more