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 ...
Kuduro is the infectious, pulsating music and dance that races along at about 140 beats per minute. It's the sound that moves the southwestern African country of Angola. A group called Os Kuduristas — ...
Whether the word Kuduro comes from the Kimbundu language, native to northern Angola and means “location” or from the Portuguese expression meaning “hard ass” or “stiff bottom” is debated but there's ...
The musician known as Nagrelha died on 18 November in Luanda, succumbing to lung cancer. He was 36 years old. Born Gelson Caio Manuel Mendes in 1986 but better known to all as Nagrelha, he was a ...
Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago. Angola is one of those words that resonates with meaning way beyond the ...
Luanda — "Continuo ou paro" is the title of the debut album of Kuduro singer Yuri João "Chuculasdmuras" to be launched this year in Luanda. Speaking to Angop, Chuculasdmuras said the CD has tracks ...
Whether the word Kuduro comes from the Kimbundu language, native to northern Angola and means “location” or from the Portuguese expression meaning “hard ass” or “stiff bottom” is debated but there's ...
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