Gilyto Mr. Entertainer está de regresso aos lançamentos discográficos com Funaná To The Moon, um álbum que coloca o funaná no ...
As music streaming has become widespread, global attention has become fixed on Spanish-language performers, and rightly so: That language fueled eight of the ten most-viewed music videos on YouTube in ...
Space Echo collects 15 tracks by 14 different performers. It’s subtitled “The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed”. The Legend of Funaná is a reissue of a 1997 album by ...
Richmond audiences have a rare opportunity to see a legend of Cabo Verdean funaná at this year’s festival. While the nostalgic morna of the northern islands, Cabo Verde’s best-known genre, is played ...
Funana is intrinsically tied up in the history of Cabo Verde and the slave trade that plied the Atlantic Ocean. The ten islands which make up the country off the west coast of Africa were forcibly ...
Just as Évora first attracted attention by recording in France, both albums are either completely or in-part creations of the Cape Verdean diaspora. Bitori's album was recorded in The Netherlands, ...