Listen to selections from his CD, 'Renascence.' In 1982, during a visit to Portugal, Waldemar Bastos defected from his native Angola, where a brutal civil war was under way. Bastos says he felt ...

Kalaf Epalanga’s debut novel Whites Can Dance Too is a literary ode to music, specifically to kuduro, the sizzling electronic dance music from Angola that his band, the MTV Europe Music award-winning ...

Kalaf Epalanga is the author of 'Também os Brancos Sabem Dançar' (Whites Can Dance Too) (2017) which explores Afro-Portuguese immigration through kuduro and kizomba, as well as 'O Angolano que Comprou ...

A car engine revs. Water runs. Feet shuffle. Sounds of everyday Angola filled Grant Recital Hall Friday in "O Barulho Mesmo," Matthew Peters Warne's GS performance of original musical compositions ...

Saurimo - The musician Gabriel Tchiema last Monday in Saurimo, eastern Lunda Sul Province, defended the need to internationalize the popular music contest dubbed ?Variante?, aiming for the promotion ...

Luanda — The musician Bozzi Bozziana, form DRCongo, and Angie Stone, (USA) applauded the work by Angolan singer Patricia Faria, during a her recent participation in the African music festival "Kora ...

Mário Rui Silva takes us through the musical life of Angolan legend Carlos Lermartina: In 2005 came his fourth record “Frutas do Chão são Coisas Nossas” (Fruit from the ground belongs to us) a ...

Coala Festival Portugal returns to Cascais for its third edition and has just revealed the first names on the line-up. The festival once again crosses the Atlantic on 30 and 31 Ma ...

Angolan musician Raul Indipwo, famous for his participation in the ethnic music group Duo Ouro Negro, died Sunday in Lisbon, Portugal. He was 72 and had been suffering from cancer. A musician since ...

The “soundtrack” of the title here represents the musical soundtrack of Luanda, the capital city of Angola in Southwest Africa. These 18 tracks by 15 acts (Os Bongos, Dimba Diangola and Jovens Do ...