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 Read more…
Praia, Santiago, 1960s Singer, songwriter Gardénia Benrós brings together in her work the different musical influences received throughout a journey in which at the age of 16, she found herself in the USA singing in a group composed by young Cape Verdeans, the Tropical Power. From the age 3 to Read more…
João Cirilo Pereira Monteiro Polon de Engenho, Santa Catarina, Santiago, 1954 Singer, songwriter, instrumentalist (harmonica, guitar) Although João Cirilo is always associated with funaná, mornas, koladeras, reggae, and other rhythms are also part of his repertoire, depending on the times. His first album is Ilusão dess mundo, from 1978, accompanied Read more…
Protásio Fortes Brito Povoação Velha, Boa Vista, 1932 Guitarrist, songwriter, violinist with discography produced since the 1960s between Holland, Portugal and the United States. Tazinho has in his repertoire original compositions in different genres, like bolero, waltz and koladeras, besides well-known themes from the Cape Verdean singer. Fado and a Read more…
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 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…
Group, 1956 Familiar group formed in Boston by descendants of Cape Verdeans, The Tune Weavers achieve great success with the song “Happy, Happy Birthday Baby”, released in 1957, at the height at the doo-wop period (a style of vocal music based on R&B that emerged among the North American black Read more…