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Mirri Lobo
Mirri Lobo (born May 22, 1960) is a Cape Verdean singer, musician, composer and producer. Biography Mirri Lobo was born Emilio Rito de Sousa Lobo in the village of Pedra de Lume in the island of Sal to Emílio de Sousa Lobo and Cacilda Brito de Sousa Lobo. He became a composer, he later revealed his talent for music at an early age. He adopted his nickname Mirri which is the element of the first two letters of his first names and has two rs with an r in the middle. At the age of 19, he went into obligatory military service in the capital city of Praia. After finishing his military service in 1981, he returned to his native island, Mirri Lobo added a local music band "Clave do Sal" ("Key of Sal"), a company featuring the greatest music and composers, including Antero Simas and Chiquinho Évora. In 1982, he participated in a tour known as "Todo o Mundo Canta", having classified as the first place at a local level and second at the national level. Mirri Lobo always liked the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedra De Lume
Pedra de Lume is a village in the northeastern part of the island of Sal, Cape Verde, Sal, Cape Verde. The village is situated on the east coast, about 5 km east of the island capital Espargos. It has a small port and a lighthouse, Farol de Pedra de Lume. Salt ponds Pedra de Lume has been famous for its salt evaporation ponds (''salinas''), exploitation of which began in the 18th century. According to geologists, the waters in the lake rise from deep in the earth rather than from lateral infiltration from the ocean. The salinas are situated in the crater of an extinct volcano. Together with the mountain Cagarral, the salinas and the crater form a List of protected areas in Cape Verde, protected landscape, covering .Resolução nº 36/2016 Estratégia e Plano Nacional de Negócios das Áreas Protegidas [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sal, Cape Verde
Sal (Portuguese for "salt") is an island in Cape Verde. Sal is a tourist destination with white sandy beaches and over 350 days of sunshine a year. It is one of the three sandy eastern islands of the Cape Verde archipelago in the central Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa. Cabo Verde is known for year-round kiteboarding, for the large reserve of Caretta turtles which hatch from July to September, and the music of Cesaria Evora. History For Europeans , the island was discovered on 3 December 1460 and named ''Llana'' ("flat"). This name was changed into the current "Sal" when the two large salt ponds (Pedra de Lume and Santa Maria) were discovered. The first three centuries after its discovery, the island was only sparsely inhabited; in 1720 there was a small fishing village near present Palmeira. This changed when the salt industry was developed at the end of the 18th century, starting in Pedra de Lume. Santa Maria was founded in the south of the island in 1830 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praia
Praia (, Portuguese language, Portuguese for "beach") is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde.Cape Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde), Instituto Nacional de Estatística Located on the southern coast of Santiago, Cape Verde, Santiago island, within the Sotavento Islands group, the city is the seat of the Praia, Cape Verde (municipality), Praia Municipality. Praia is the economic, political, and cultural center of Cape Verde. History 
The island of Santiago was discovered by António da Noli in 1460. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dany Silva
Dany Silva is a Cape Verdean singer, musician, composer and producer. Biography Dany Silva was born in the then colonial capital of Praia, he lives in Portugal since 1961. He started playing the violin in his father's island Boa Vista, Cape Verde. After his immigration to Portugal, he studied at Escola de Regentes Agrícolas de Santarém and later Engenheiro Técnico Agrário He was one of the singers who founded the band Os Charruos. Seven years later, he was part of the group Quinteto Académico+2 next to Mike Sergeant. Later, he took part with Four Kings. In 1979, he recorded the Bana single "Feel Good" in part of the program Rock Em Stock. He formed Bandassanhá, his first disc was "Branco, Tinto e Jeropiga", later "Estou farto:. He recorded a maxi-single "(Com elas) Crioula de S. Bento", "(Aqui É) Terra de Fé" e "Pois É... (A Vida)". He released ''Lua Vagabunda'' (''Vagabond Moon'') in 1986. The disc featured Rui Veloso and Zé Carrapa, singles included " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTP Madeira
RTP Madeira is a Portuguese free-to-air regional television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. It began broadcasting on 6 August 1972. It is broadcast in the Madeira Islands and via cable and satellite in the Azores Islands and continental Portugal. RTP Madeira serves as a regional opt-out to the national public television channel, RTP1 RTP1 (''RTP um'') is a Portuguese free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). It is the company's flagship television channel, and is known for broadcasting mainst .... History RTP planned the start of a television service in Madeira as early as 1971, but the building of the transmitters was delayed due to adverse climatic conditions. The first experimental broadcasts were conducted on June 30, 1972, with regular broadcasts starting on August 6. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mb Records
MB, Mb or M. B. may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Mälarhöjden/Bredäng Hockey, a Swedish ice hockey club * Media Blasters, an American multimedia entertainment distributor * Mediobanca, and Italian company with Borsa Italiana stock symbol MB * Mercedes-Benz, a German brand of automobiles, buses, coaches and trucks * Milton Bradley Company, a board-game and sometime video-game publisher * Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Islamic movement People * Lee Myung-bak (born 1941), former president of South Korea * Maurizio Bianchi or MB (born 1955), Italian composer of industrial music * Mario Balotelli (born 1990), Italian footballer Science and technology * Megabyte (MB), a measure of information * Megabit (Mb or Mbit), a measure of information * '' MikroBitti'' (formerly MB), a Finnish computer magazine * Mega base pairs, a unit of measurement in genetics * Millibar, a unit of pressure * Body wave magnitude (mb), a seismic scale * Megabarn Mb and millibarn mb, units of cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lusafrica
Lusafrica, full name: Productions Lusafrica (French for ''Lusafrica Productions'') is a multinational independent record label company based in Paris, France. The company was founded in 1988 by José da Silva (born in 1959 in Praia, Cape Verde), it was the first multinational record company opened in Cape Verde and one of the first in France. It is the main African independent label in France. The company had originally produced records by artists mainly from Cape Verde and other lusophone countries. Since, the company has recorded by artists from the United States, Cuba, Brazil and France. History Debut and success In 1987, José da Silva (b. 1959 in Praia), then track switcher for SNCF, chose to become a music producer at his expense. During his dinner in Lisbon at the restaurant with Cape Verdean singer Bana, he heard the voice of Cesária Évora for the first time and together proposed. In 1988, Lusafrica was created and recorded the first album '' La Diva aux pieds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTC (Cape Verde)
The Radiotelevisão Caboverdiana is Cape Verde's first radio and television station broadcasting local programs from Cape Verde, Portugal and Brazil as well as the rest of the world especially France. It is a publicly owned company and enterprise and is located in the Capeverdean capital city of Praia, in the southern part in the middle of Achada Santo António RTC also has a few buildings, it also has offices in São Vicente (serving the northwestern part), Sal (serving the northeastern part), São Filipe on Fogo Island (serving the southwestern part) and Assomada in Santa Catarina (serving Northern Santiago and possibly Maio). The building size is very small. The radio building is in the south on Rua 13 de Janeiro and the television station is in the north. Its current president is José Emanuel Tavares Moreira. The station also broadcasts news, sports, television shows and recently broadcasts football or soccer coverages from Portugal and also from Brazil as well as Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabo Verde Music Awards
The Cabo Verde Music Awards (abbreviation: CVMA) is an annual music award ceremony that takes place every year. The award ceremony takes place in the capital city of Praia, Cape Verde. It is also broadcast on TCV. History The origins of the creation of the music awards for Cape Verde began in the 2000s. The first edition took place in March 2011 and was one of the most recent music awards made by any country, featuring some of the greatest Cape Verdean musicians from the diaspora abroad. The first guests included Gilyto, La MC Malcriado and Suzanna Lubrano. The recent edition took place on 2016, featuring Elida Almeida, Gilyto, Hélio Batalha and others. Categories The following music categories include: *Best Acoustic Album: **2012: "Caldera Preta" by Mirri Lobo *Best Coladeira: **2011: "Reggadeira" by Maria de Barros **2012: "Caldera Preta" by Mirri Lobo **2015: A single by Jorge Serna *Best Funaná: **2011: "É Si Ki’m Feitu” by La MC Malcriado **2015: A single b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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