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 ...

As far back as the 1960s, there was a thriving recording industry in Angola. But the music released before the country's independence from... Funk Before War In Angola Funk Before War In Angola Funk ...

Saurimo - The musician Gabriel Tchiema last Monday in Saurimo, eastern Lunda Sul Province, defended the need to internationalize the popular music contest dubbed ?Variante?, aiming for the promotion ...

The “soundtrack” of the title here represents the musical soundtrack of Luanda, the capital city of Angola in Southwest Africa. These 18 tracks by 15 acts (Os Bongos, Dimba Diangola and Jovens Do ...