Muungano National Choir at Musica Sacra International in Marktoberdorf Germany 1996
Category Archives: Africa
Music from Egypt – Moseqar
Moseqar is a producer and DJ from Al Qahirah, Egypt. Listen to his chillstep piece “Only One”:
Music from Liberia – Kanvee G. Adams
Kanvee G. Adams is a very popular liberian gospel pop singer. Listen to her nice piece “Weep no more”:
Music from Ethiopia – Zemarit Tsedale Gobeze
Tsedale Gobeze – an ethiopian orthodox church singer
Music from Ethiopia
Don’t know anything about this song, and can’t find some information… But it’s nice :)
Music from Mozambique – Roberto Isaias
Roberto Isaias is a singer and song-write from Mozambique performing Marrabenta and Afro-Zouk. Heres the song “Mutorotoro“
Music from Ethiopia – Tigist Afework
For more Info have a look here ……….
Tigist Afework singing Abay music video,
Ethiopia is a musically traditional country. Popular music is played, recorded and listened to, but most musicians also sing traditional songs, and most audiences choose to listen to both popular and traditional styles.
Music from Ethiopia – Jacky Gosee
Jacky-Gosee (Gossaye Kellemu) a young Ethiopian born shooting multi talented Artist known for is songs like “CHIRASH” “SELA BEY” and “MAMA”. at his young ages he came to the Netherlands where he practices his Musical activities. J.G. has been and is still performing on many stages in different countries to his fans.
I like the beautyful pictures in this video and the mixture of modern and traditional instruments
Music from Angola – Bonga Kuenda
Bonga Kuenda, Icon of Angolan music Bonga is on first-name terms with the stars and has given true meaning to the concept (albeit multifaceted) of ‘Africanness’. From Luanda to Rotterdam, Paris to Lisbon, and everywhere else, Bonga belongs to that caste of African singers who have sublimated their roots. His rasping, powerful voice is immediately identifiable and anyone listening to his albums remains entranced from start to finish. With its eighteen tracks, this “Best of” illustrates a fascinating career that spans different periods and continents with the Atlantic Ocean as its connecting thread.
He was born José Adelino Barcelo de Carvalho in Kipri in 1943, but changed his name to Bonga Kuenda when he reached his teens, already showing a keen awareness of the realities of Portuguese colonialism. He learned about music from his father, a fisherman and accordionist, and rapidly grasped its potential impact when linked to the political aspirations of his generation and an inexhaustible melancholic vein. Here is the song “Kambua”
listen too Mulemba Xangola.
Music from Cape Verde – Luis Morais
The song “Boas Festas” – an end-of-year soundtrack heard everywhere on the radio and in the bars and taverns of Cape Verde – was written by the famous clarinettist Luis Morais, master of an entire generation of Cape Verdean musicians. Wherever you go, whatever you do, either the original or one of the more modern versions of “Boas Festas” will be playing, its joyful yet nostalgic beat plunging listeners into contagious, euphoric sadness. The imminence of the New Year celebrations when all cares are forgotten irresistibly conjures up the image of a friend, brother or loved one, lost forever or gone to seek a better life elsewhere… In Cape Verde, there is always time for tears and memories before laughter and song…
Luis Morais died suddenly at the age of 67 on Wednesday the 25th September 2002 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Luis Morais is a legend in the land of Cesaria Evora. Born on the 10th February 1935 in Mindelo (São Vicente Island, Cape Verde), he spent his youth in Dakar, where he first studied and learnt the rudiments and theory of music, then composition. He began to play his favourite instruments, the clarinet and saxophone (alto and tenor), at Cape Verdean dances, very fashionable in Dakar at the time. Here is the song “Boas Festas”
