Luanda — The First Lady of the Republic, Ana Dias Lourenço, attended on Sunday (06), as guest of honor, the Kanuca Show, held on the Luanda Boulevard, during which she was enchanted by the exhibition ...

Angola celebra 50 anos de independência e a sua história pode ouvir-se no Semba, através do ritmo que denunciou o colonialismo, uniu o país e continua a pulsar nas novas gerações. Para o antropólogo ...

Luanda — The materialization of the project "Quintal do Semba" came to ensure the future of Semba and to show that the rhythms of root are still alive in Angola's music industry, said the Angolan ...

Bonga, a musician from Angola who sings in the semba style, performs at Real Art Ways in Hartford Sunday at 7 p.m. Angolan semba is similar to Brazilian samba. Exiled from Angola in 1972 for his ...

Em criança, Matias Damásio ouvia durante todo o dia a música dos gramofones das lojas de bebidas da Lixeira, a sua terra, em Benguela. De lá saiu com 11 anos. Sozinho. Rumo a Luanda. Deram-lhe uma ...

This music encapsulated the moment. It is synthed up, but its smooth, tropical sound made it danceable and possible to play when acoustic and electric instruments were few and far between. The older ...

"Think of it as a warm hug," says Namrata Wittke, co-founder and director of Rare Grooves Dance Company (RGDC), when asked to describe Semba and Kizomba. Together with Latin Twist, yet another ...

In this edition of World Music Matters, RFI’s Brenna Daldorph spoke with Paulo Flores, one of Angola’s most famous musicians and the father of modern semba music, when he spoke at an event by Modern ...