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Grandeza (album)
''Grandeza'' (Portuguese and Capeverdean Creole for "Greatness")' is an album recorded by Val Xalino. The album was released in 2004 and is named after a sixth single made by Eddy Moreno released in 1981. The album features nine tracks including "Grandeza" and "Corpin sebin" The album was composed by Val and Robert Xalino, Robert Xalino. It features some cover versions of the singles made by Eddy Moreno and Djô D’Eloy. Eddy Moreno was the uncle of Val Xalino. Track listing See also *Val Xalino Val Xalino (born August 19, 1953) is a Capeverdean singer and producer who currently resides in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the father of the Cape Verdean singer and producer Robert Xalino. Biography Val Xalino was born in Mindelo on the island o ... References 2004 albums Albums by Val Xalino {{2000s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Xalino
Val Xalino (born August 19, 1953) is a Capeverdean singer and producer who currently resides in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the father of the Cape Verdean singer and producer Robert Xalino. Biography Val Xalino was born in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente to his mother Maria who was a cook and his father Armando de Jon who was a great musician from the island during the 1950s and the 1960s. He made guitars along with his brothers Eduardo de Jon and Eddy Moreno. Together with his son Roberto, he later immigrated to Sweden and lived in the city of Gothenburg in the western part in 1977, Val immigrated later. His first album was ''Dilema d’imigração'' on the dilemma on immigration of the immigrants which was common in Cape Verde at the time. In 1987, he released '' Dança Dança T' Manchê'', one of the singles, ''Praia de Baía'' became a hit in Sweden and was heard on Swedish radio stations. Xalino later released '' Emoções'' in 1993. He released '' Grandeza'' rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Xalino
Roberto Xalino (born March 21, 1987) is a Cape Verdean singer, rapper and producer who currently resides in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the son of the Capeverdean singer and producer Val Xalino. Biography Roberto Xalino was born in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente. Together with his brother Val, he later immigrated to Sweden and lived in the city of Gothenburg in the western part. He is best known as the son of Val Xalino who came from a Cape Verdean family of musicians named Xalino, singers of traditional music. His family once lived at 35 Rua de Moeda where famous singers in the 1950s and the 1960s visited including Eddy Moreno, Djuta Silva, Armando de Jon Xalino, Eduardo de Jon Xalino and his uncles Xante and Zuca Xalino. Female musician Djuta Silva had great success in Portugal and Africa along with Eddy Moreno in the 1950s. 35 Rua de Moeda was a famous house in Mindelo where most musicians and singers from the 1940s to the 1970s got their musical education. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morna (music)
The morna (pronunciation in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole: ) is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. Lyrics are usually in Cape Verdean Creole, and instrumentation often includes cavaquinho, clarinet, accordion, violin, piano and guitar. Morna is widely considered the national music of Cape Verde, as is the fado for Portugal, the tango for Argentina, the merengue for Dominican Republic, the rumba for Cuba, and so on. The best internationally known morna singer was Cesária Évora. Morna and other genres of Cape Verdean music are also played in Cape Verdean migrant communities abroad, especially in New England in the US, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, West Africa and parts of Latin America. As a music genre As a music genre, the morna is characterized by having a lento tempo, a 2-beat bar (sometimes 4)Brito, M., ''Breves Apontamentos sobre as Formas Musicais existentes em Cabo Verde'' — 1998 and in its most traditional form by having a harmonic structure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coladeira
The ''coladeira'' (; Cape Verdean Creole: ''koladera,'' ) is a music genre from the Cape Verde islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. It is characterized by a variable tempo, a 2-beat bar, and (in its most traditional form) a harmonic structure based in a cycle of fifths. The lyrics structure is organized in strophes that alternate with a refrain. The tone is generally joyful and themes often include social criticism. Instrumentation typically includes a guitar, a '' cavaquinho'', and percussion, among others. According to oral tradition, the genre originated in the 1930s when the composer Anton’ Tchitch’ intentionally speeded up the tempo of a '' morna.'' In the 1950s, it began to incorporate electronic influences, and beginning in the 1980s it was influenced by compas music from Haiti. ''Coladeira'' also refers to a ballroom dance done in pairs accompanied by the music. Genre As a music genre the ''coladeira'' is characterized by having a variable tempo, from ''a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainha De Beleza
''Rainha de Beleza'' (Portuguese and Capeverdean Creole for the "Queen of Beauty")' is a 2006 album by Val Xalino Val Xalino (born August 19, 1953) is a Capeverdean singer and producer who currently resides in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the father of the Cape Verdean singer and producer Robert Xalino. Biography Val Xalino was born in Mindelo on the island o .... The album was released in 2006 and is named a song in the earlier album '' Emoções'' (1993) and the latest version released in 2006. On the latter of both discs, the duet is made together with Val Xalino's son, rapper and producer Roberto Xalino. On the album, there are tracks by Val and Roberto Xalino as well as Luís Silva and Jovino dos Santos. Track listing References External links * Lyrics of one of the singles from the album 2006 albums Albums by Val Xalino {{2000s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Moreno
Eddy Moreno born Adolfo de Jon Xalino (1915–1983) was a famous Cape Verdean singer. He belonged to the Xalino family of singers. His greatest singles included " Arriola" and " Grandeza", both appeared in the album '' Nos Festa'' in 1981. Moreno was the first to record in the Sanjon (Saint John) music style. Biography Lobo was born in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, he first appeared in music and theater. After his theatrical appearance, he became a singer and a musician and a pioneer in Cape Verdean music history. Moreno recorded many traditional coladeira and morna songs in the 1950s and the 1960s. He appeared with other singers including Djuta Silva, Armando de Jon Xalino, Eduardo de Jon Xalino, Xante Xalino and Zuca Xalino. He lived at 35 Rua de Moeda. Other Cape Verdean singers came to the place including Cesária Évora, former girlfriend of Eduardo de Hon Xalino, Bana, Djô d'Eloy, Luis Morais and Manuel de Novas (also as Manuel d'Novas). Moreno toured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djô D’Eloy
Jorge Augusto Fernandes (born 11 January 1986), known as Djô, is a Portuguese futsal player Player may refer to: Role or adjective * Player (game), a participant in a game or sport ** Gamer, a player in video and tabletop games ** Athlete, a player in sports ** Player character, a character in a video game or role playing game who is ... who plays for Leões Porto Salvo and the Portugal national team. External linksSporting CP profileFPF national team profileFPF club profile * 1986 births Living people Portuguese men's futsal players Cape Verdean men's futsal players Sporting CP futsal players Sportspeople from Praia Cape Verdean emigrants to Portugal {{Portugal-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Albums
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
