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Angolan Musicians
The following is a list of Angolan musicians: Folk bands *Negoleiros do Ritmo, Ngola Ritmos Folk singers *Waldemar Bastos *Bonga (musician), Bonga *Alberto Teta Lando, Teta Lando *Sam Mangwana *Idegarda Oliveira *Lourdes Van-Dúnem Contemporary folk singers *Paulo Flores *Neide Van-Dúnem Contemporary alternative bands *Neblina Contemporary/popular singers *Titica *Don Kikas *Neide Van-Dúnem Rap bands *Army Squad R&B singers *Diamondog *KeyLiza *Anselmo Ralph *Neide Van-Dúnem Kizomba artists *Don Kikas Kuduro bands *Buraka Som Sistema Kuduro singers *Titica *Dog Murras Kwaito/hip hop {{DEFAULTSORT:Angolan Musicians Angolan musicians Lists of Angolan people by occupation, Musicians Lists of musicians by nationality, Angolan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Titica
Titica is an Angola, Angolan kuduro musician and dancer. She was named "the new face" of kuduro by the BBC. Career Titica was born in Luanda. Her stage name is Portuguese for "worthless" or "useless"; she chose the name to reclaim the hateful words that have been directed at her as a trans woman. Titica began her career as a Backup dancer, back-up dancer with acts such as Noite & Dia, Propria Lixa, and Puto Portugues. Her first recording of a Single (music), single was unplanned. While helping Noite & Dia develop a chorus for a track, Titica's voice was recorded for the track, beginning her music-recording career. In October 2011, Titica released her first album, ''Chão...'', launching her to international success. The album's single "Olha o Boneco," featuring the Afro-Portuguese people, African-Portuguese singer Ary, charted at number one for 3 weeks on the Portugal, Portuguese music program ''TOP +'' and for 7 weeks on the Brazil, Brazilian show ''Rolando Música''. Influence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angolan Musicians
The following is a list of Angolan musicians: Folk bands *Negoleiros do Ritmo, Ngola Ritmos Folk singers *Waldemar Bastos *Bonga (musician), Bonga *Alberto Teta Lando, Teta Lando *Sam Mangwana *Idegarda Oliveira *Lourdes Van-Dúnem Contemporary folk singers *Paulo Flores *Neide Van-Dúnem Contemporary alternative bands *Neblina Contemporary/popular singers *Titica *Don Kikas *Neide Van-Dúnem Rap bands *Army Squad R&B singers *Diamondog *KeyLiza *Anselmo Ralph *Neide Van-Dúnem Kizomba artists *Don Kikas Kuduro bands *Buraka Som Sistema Kuduro singers *Titica *Dog Murras Kwaito/hip hop {{DEFAULTSORT:Angolan Musicians Angolan musicians Lists of Angolan people by occupation, Musicians Lists of musicians by nationality, Angolan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dog Murras
Murthala Fançony Bravo de Oliveira (born 17 February 1977) is an Angolan kuduro singer and songwriter stemming from the latest generation of Angola's contemporary urban music. Early career He began experimenting as a singer as a Fine Arts high school student in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1995, following an overwhelming urge for songwriting and singing he went upstage at Johannesburg's Flava nightclub to snatch a 3rd place at a ragamuffin singing contest. A year later, spurred on by a relative of his, he is introduced to a Luanda-based radio talkshow host Miguel Neto who was dumbfounded as he listened to Murras’ singing thus encouraging him to try a more serious approach. Later on, while in South Africa, singer and songwriter Eduardo Paím is dazzled by the raw talent of Dog Murras, which prompts him to promise help the young teenager at his return home. Eduardo Paím at that time was at the initial stage of his plans to set up a recording studio at his Kassenda home in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buraka Som Sistema
Buraka Som Sistema was an electronic dance music project from Portugal, specializing in a fusion of techno beats with the African zouk and kuduro genre. It is generally credited with creating the "zouk bass" and "progressive kuduro" variant and has received an MTV European Music Award. In 2015 Buraka Som Sistema said they would be taking an hiatus starting in 2016, and on July 1st 2016 they performed live for the last time in Lisbon. Origins Buraka Som Sistema was founded in 2002 by Branko (João Barbosa), Rui Pité (DJ Riot), Andro Carvalho (Conductor) and Kalaf Ângelo. Barbosa and Pité were producers from the Cool Train Crew collective, for which Kalaf was a frequent vocal collaborator. They were interested in creating a kuduro project, and had previously worked together as 1-UIK Project. They met Carvalho, a hip-hop producer from Angola and member of the hip-hop band Conjunto Ngonguenha, while he was in Portugal. Buraka Som Sistema is the Portuguese word for word translati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anselmo Ralph
Anselmo Ralf Andrade Cordeiro (born March 12, 1981), better known as Anselmo Ralph, is an Angolan singer. He is one of the better internationally known Angolan singers and is commonly known for producing romantic songs. Biography Anselmo Ralph was born in Luanda on March 12, 1981. He completed his elementary and high-school years in Angola then migrated to New York to finish college. He majored in Accounting at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The singer is married to Madlice Castro since 2008, with whom he has two children, Alicia and Jason. Career In 1991 and 1992, he resided in Madrid and was greatly influenced by Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra. In 1995, he returned to Angola forming the hip hop group NGB (standing for Nova Geração Bantu). The group released the album ''Tá-se Bem'' the following year on EP Studios (EP standing for Eduardo Paím), although various financial difficulties hampered distribution which lagged until 1999. In 2000, he returned to Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KeyLiza
Kisita Elisabeth Massamba (born December 11, 1989), known by her stage name Keyliza, DJ Queen of Beats or Q.O.B., is a German singer, dancer, DJ, composer, beatmaker and record producer based in Vancouver, Canada. She is best known for being a member of German R&B-pop group Sistanova. Earlier life Massamba was born on December 11, 1990, in Hanau, Germany. Both of her parents are from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her mother was born in São Salvador, northern Angola (present day M'banza-Kongo) and she is a part of the Kingdom of Kongo. At the age of four she moved with her family to Frankfurt am Main. In 2001 she started getting piano, singing, jazz dancing & theater lessons at school & gospel choir and also started beatboxing in the school recess and malls where she discovered her passion to create music instrumentals ''Hip Hop Beats''. She get her first attention to hip hop music and rap when she listens to Tupac Shakur, Bone Thugs N Harmony and Orishas. Sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamondog
Diamantino Edgar Capacassa Feijó (born August 23, 1980), better known as Diamondog, is an Angolan rapper. He is known for making political and conscious hip hop. Diamondog is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and has a master's degree in visual media and anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin. Biography Rapper since 1998, Diamondog met the hip hop culture at the age 16 when he took a course in journalism at the Middle Institute of Economy of Luanda (IMEL). Influenced by friends and colleagues already knew the hip hop culture the longest, Diamondog went from listener to the master of ceremony ( MC). Diamondog has been on tour in Barcelona in Spain and in Porto, Braga, Gaia and Matosinhos in Portugal. and has performed in concerts in Kraków in Poland and in Brazilian cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador, Bahia, Curitiba and Belo Horizonte in the company of Afrika Bambaataa, Marcelo D2, Thaide dual Thaide and DJ Hum, Tianastacia, Wilson Sidereal, Lean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Army Squad
Army Squad is a hip hop group from Angola. They started making hip hop music in the early 1990s. They were once part of a group called Bue and Heavy C is featured in many of Army Squad's songs such as "Cabeca Vazia" and "Conselho de Amigo". Like many other Angolan rappers, Army Squad aims to raise awareness of the Angolan hip hop scene all over the world. Their music varies from love songs like "Pel Castanha" or "Conselho de Amigo" to gangsta rap Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, emerged in the mid- to late 1980s as a controversial hip-hop subgenre whose lyrics assert the culture and values typical of American street gangs and street hustlers. Many gangsta rappe ... like their hits "Firme" and "Cabeça Vazia". References External linksInfo on Army Squad at africanhiphop.com Radio From Angola and free MP3 Living people Angolan hip hop groups Year of birth missing (living people) 1990s establishments in Angola {{Hiphop-group-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Kikas
Emílio Camilo da Costa (born 5 January 1974), known professionally as Don Kikas, is an Angolan singer from the city of Sumbe in the southern Angolan province of Cuanza Sul. Early life In his early days as a child his parents moved to Brazil where he started to take a liking to music and dreaming of becoming a singer. At the age of 8, he was assisted by his mother in writing his first song. He would attend a few singing contests and as he walked out victorious, his passion for singing grew. Musical career He began singing at local nightclubs and discothèques in Portugal at the age of 18 until in 1994 he was invited to record his debut album, ''Sexy Baby'', which was released in 1995. In 1997, Kikas released his second album, ''Pura Sedução'' which was silver in Portugal. That same year, "Esperança Moribunda" received the "Music of the Year" award granted by the Rádio Nacional de Angola (national radio station). By this time, invitations were extended for Kikas to perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neblina
Neblina is a heavy metal band from Angola, founded in 2001. They released an album in 2006, ''Innocence Falls in Decay''. In the same year, they played a number of shows in Germany, for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In 2007, they performed at Windhoek Metal Fest in Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ..., and were reported to be working on a second album. Line up * Mauro Neb - vocals * Michel 'Fio' Figueiredo - lead guitar * Beto - rhythm guitar * Bokolo - bass * Thiago - drums Discography *''Innocence Falls in Decay'' (2006) References {{reflist External links Neblina's BlogAngola Press article in Portuguese Angolan musical groups Angolan rock music groups Gothic metal musical groups 2001 establishments in Angola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negoleiros Do Ritmo
Ngola Ritmos was a musical group created in 1947 in the home of Manuel dos Passos by a group of young men called Domingos Van-Dúnem, Mário da Silva Araújo, Francisco Machado, Liceu Vieira Días and Nino Ndongo who formerly comprised a group named "Os Sambas" . They sang in kimbundu with the purpose to spread and divulge cultural and political awareness to the peoples of Luanda during the Portuguese Empire era. They felt a need to create something new. To spread and divulge folkloric themes that were fading away due to colonialism so Ngola Ritmos, still a small group, appeared with Liceu Vieira Días as the main guitar player and the rest playing with drums and acacia sticks as rattles. Musical career In the 1950s, the band comprised Liceu, Nino, Amadeu , José Maria, Euclides Fontes Pereira, José Cordeiro, Lourdes Van-Dúnem and Belita Palma. They sang laments inspired by their daily chronicles or funeral rites where women would also sing laments. They recorded two discs and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
