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Emigrants from Madeira also influenced the creation of new musical instruments. In the 1880s, the ukulele was created, based on two small guitar-like instruments of Madeiran origin, the cavaquinho and the rajão. The ukulele was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese immigrants from Madeira and Cape Verde. [1]
Viola de arame: the viola de arame is similar to the viola braguesa and may have a sound hole in the shape of two hearts, a half moon, or an oval. It is common on Madeira and the Azores, and has nine strings arranged in five courses: 2-2-2-1-2. Viola braguesa: the viola braguesa is an instrument resembling the guitar strung with five steel ...
Maximiano de Sousa (20 January 1918, in Funchal, Madeira – 29 May 1980) was a Portuguese Fado singer. [1] Max was one of the most popular Fado singers from the 1940s until well after his death in 1980.
The Viola de arame is a stringed musical instrument from the Portuguese island of Madeira. [1] It has 9 (sometimes 10) strings in 5 courses. The strings are made of steel.
Portugal has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea, across Europe and former colonies. In the two centuries before the Christian era, Ancient Rome brought with it Greek influences; early Christians, who had their differing versions of church music arrived during the height of the Roman Empire; the Visigoths, a Romanized Germanic people, who ...
Late 19th century, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Joaquim Callado (1848-1880), considered one of the creators of the choro genre Choro ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʃoɾu] , "cry" or "lament"), also popularly called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th century Rio de ...
"Have Some Madeira M'Dear", also titled "Madeira, M'Dear?", [n 1] is a darkly comic song by Flanders and Swann. [2]Madeira wine. The lyrics tell of an elderly rake who "slyly inveigles" an attractive girl of 17 to his flat to view his collection of stamps, where he offers her a glass of Madeira, a fortified Portuguese wine.
Independence from Portugal was declared in 1973 after a long struggle."Esta É a Nossa Pátria Bem Amada" ("This Is Our Beloved Country"), composed by Xiao He with words by Amílcar Cabral, is the national anthem of Guinea-Bissau, as it was of Cape Verde until 1996.