Listen to selections from his CD, 'Renascence.' In 1982, during a visit to Portugal, Waldemar Bastos defected from his native Angola, where a brutal civil war was under way. Bastos says he felt ...

Szavanna interviews Angolan blogger, Koluki, about Angolan music: “I am having fun with these interviews – it’s actually amazing how many exceptional people are out there blogging – Koluki is one of ...

'Death Metal Angola' is a powerful new documentary which explores the impact of extreme metal on young people in war-torn Africa, as well as the actual bands that perform the music. The award-winning ...

My wife is Portuguese. Actually, she's of mixed Portuguese and Angolan descent. Her mother and father fled Luanda during the first years of the Angolan civil war, and settled in Lisbon. We now live in ...

Lisbon's DJ crew Buraka Som Sistema has an avid following across Western Europe with a turbo-charged groove called kuduro. It's a beat that originated in Angola and almost instantly bounced from the ...

Luanda — The director of the National School of Music, Gaspar Neto, Monday in Luanda said that the Angolan music market is in dire need of instrumentists, which can affect the quality of the local ...

A short lesson in Angolan music from Isacorreia: “Semba is a typical Angolan genre rooted in traditional carnival rhythms, such as kilapanga, rebita, kazukuta and kabetula…Kizomba is a new Afro style ...

Many in the African diaspora trace their rhythmic roots to Angola's drumming; from Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August, this musical heritage returns to its source. Musicians from Brazil, Mozambique, ...

Luanda — The Angolan musician Matias Damásio considered Saturday here necessary to boost, value and internationalize the music made in Angola so as to strengthen the national culture. The artist said ...

A year has passed since an Angolan dance troupe called Fenómenos do Semba released a video of themselves dancing in a courtyard in Luanda to the South African hit song Jerusalema by Master KG. With ...