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Other artists of Cape Verdean descent include those in São Tomé and Príncipe such as Camilo Domingos from the island of Príncipe which mainly has elements with other African music and those in the United States such as Horace Silver whose father was born in Cape Verde, some of his songs have Cape Verdean music genre, featured in some albums ...
Morna is widely considered the national music of Cape Verde, [3] 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 .
Music organizations based in Cape Verde (1 C) Cape Verdean musicians (6 C, 13 P) S. Cape Verdean songs (1 C) Pages in category "Music of Cape Verde"
Museu da Tabanka in Assomada. The word "tabanka" existed in Portuguese texts in around the 16th century. The word was likely originated from some of the African languages, mainly the westernmost part of West Africa, that time, it was used to build and design fortifications by Portuguese navigators in the coast of Guinea (now roughly Guinea-Bissau) in the Guinea-Bissau Creole, the word "tabanka ...
The coladeira (Portuguese pronunciation: [kulɐˈðɐjɾɐ]; Cape Verdean Creole: koladera, [kolɐˈdeɾɐ]) 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 .
"Sodade" is a Cape Verdean song written in the 1950s by Armando Zeferino Soares, [1] and best popularized by Cesária Évora on her 1992 album Miss Perfumado. The name is the Cape Verdean Creole variant of the Portuguese term saudade .
Music portal Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ... American musicians of Cape Verdean descent (15 P) C. Cape Verdean ...
The channel was created as part of a government project to end the local terrestrial television monopoly in Cape Verde (excluding RTP África) in January 2007. The station was the highest-ranked of the three national bids, receiving a 70% rate, ahead of TIVER (57%) and RTI (54%).