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 ...

Szavanna interviews Angolan blogger, Koluki, about Angolan music: “I am having fun with these interviews – it’s actually amazing how many exceptional people are out there blogging – Koluki is one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul Robert Christgau called this 1969 soul masterpiece “a baroque, luscious production job over the non-singing of one half of Sam & Dave’s production-songwriting team,” ...

Dr. Francesca Negro is an independent researcher in Comparative Literature and Performance studies. She is affiliated researcher with The Centre for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon ...

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