Fattú Djakité - Badja Tina
A story of silence and resistance
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Grito De Bo Fidje – Boy Gé Mendes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/boy-ge-mendes-grito-de-bo-fidje/
Like many in France at the time, I discovered Boy Gé Mendes, the Cape Verdean guitarist and vocalist, born in 1952 in Dakar, Sénégal, through an ad on TV.
But there’s more to his career than the song “Grito De Bo Fidje”. With his brother Jean-Claude, Manú Lima, and Luís Silva, he formed “Cabo Verde […]
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Mario Lucio - Independance
https://youtu.be/JeutVXRGJnA
"50 years after the independence of Cape Verde and the other ex-Portuguese colonies, Mario Lucio releases an album celebrating this great moment of change in Lusophone Africa.
Singer, guitarist, composer, poet, writer, thinker and even former Minister of Culture: Mario Lucio is all these things and more for Cape Verdeans."
Lura – Nos Diva (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lura-nos-diva/
Lura in a live tribute To Cesária Evora.
They appeared together on the album “Cesária Evora & …”, a compilation of duos with multiple artists, released in 2010 and covering multiple genres from AfroCuban to Morna and Son. […]
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Cremilda Medina – Nôs Morna
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cremilda-medina-tito-paris-nos-morna/
Cesária Évora‘s legacy is well and alive, with many young artists taking on morna & saudade…
Here’s “Nôs Morna” in 2018, winner of IPMA (International Portuguese Music Awards) 2019 Awards in the World Music Performance category.
Born in Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, Cremilda Medina is a songwriter and singer of […]
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Bandé-Gamboa – Pé di bissilon (Horizonte)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/horizonte-bande-gamboa-pe-di-bissilon-remix/
Originally, the record Horizonte brought together artists from Lisbon’s African scene (under the name Bandé-Gamboa), to celebrate gumbé and funaná. These 2 genres form the musical heritage of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, repressed during the Portuguese colonial era.
On this remix, Detroit Swindle keep the African spirit of the original track alive, mixing it [...]
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Bandé-Gamboa – Dunia Bé Téné (Horizonte)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bande-gamboa-horizonte-dunia-be-tene/
Bandé-Gamboa is a project made up of two All-Star bands, created to reinterpret extremely rare or unreleased tracks from Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde, a project explicitly dedicated to the living memory of Amílcar Cabral, the intellectual force and strategist behind the independence of both countries, whose dream was to have them forever united. Founder of […]
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Fatoumata Diawara – Ambe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fatoumata-diawara-ambe/
Composed during the first lockdown, Fatoumata enlisted revered female musicians Angelique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves, China Moses, Inna Modja, Somi, Mayra Andrade, Thandiswa Mazwai and Terri Lyne Carrington to collaborate on the track.
Ambe” means “altogether” in Bambara.
Some of these artists are also known for their own campaigns, against sexism and other causes, [...]
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Dino d’Santiago – Morna
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dino-dsantiago-morna/
Portuguese-Cape Verdean singer Dino d’Santiago blends together the traditional Cape Verdean sounds with contemporary influences on his single Morna in 2020, whose version below was recorded in the COLORS’ studios. Wikipedia
Space Echo (Cabo Verde)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/space-echo-cabo-verde/
Space Echo – The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed!
A #MustRead story, from myth to reality...
In the spring of 1968 a cargo ship was preparing to leave the port of Baltimore with an important shipment of musical instruments. Its final destination was Rio De Janeiro, where the EMSE Exhibition (Exposição Mundial Do Son Eletrônico) was going […]
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Tradison di Terra – Forma Batuku
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tradison-di-terra-forma-batuku/
Tradison di Terra is a “grupo batucadeiras,” cape-verdean women traditional group, performing Batuque (Batuku).
Batuku, a predominantly female expression, is marked by a circular dance and the use of the txabeta. Although it was the target of repression during the colonial period, being considered immoral and subversive, Batuku resisted and became a ritual of celebration […]
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Viva Africando
https://amf.didiermary.fr/viva-africando-album-2013/
¡Viva Africando! ¡Viva! (2013)
Africando’s 8th (and last) studio album is the first not recorded primarily in New York. This time the Africando masterminds, producer Ibrahima Sylla and arranger Boncana Maïga, bring New York’s top Latin musicians – led by pianist Oscar Hernandez – to Paris. There they reunite with the group’s vocal stars, […]
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Cesária Evora & Compay Segundo – Lágrimas Negras
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cesaria-evora-compay-segundo-lagrimas-negras/
Recorded in Havana (Cuba) in 1999 by Cesária Evora and Compay Segundo, for a special limited edition of the album “São Vicente di Longe” (2001), and re-released in 2010 in the duet album “&…”
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Bitori – Legend Of Funaná
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bitori-legend-of-funana/
In 1997, a quiet, unassuming man of 59 years old named Victor Tavares – better known as Bitori – walks into a studio for the very first time to record a masterpiece which many Cabo Verdean consider to be the best Funaná album ever made.
The album “Bitori // Legend Of Funaná – The Forbidden […]
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Ineida Moniz - KUKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25p0DkUwCZM
She hasn't released an album yet, but probably one of the new important voices from Cabo Verde.
R.I.P Bana, King of Morna
https://amf.didiermary.fr/legendary-bana-rip/
The legendary Bana (Adriano Gonçalves), the “King of Morna (o Rei da Morna),” passed away in Lisbon in July 2013. Bana, born in Mindelo in March 1932, started appearing with local singers at age four. […]
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