Cape Verde African Music & Songs

Cape Verde African Music & Songs

Watch and listen varieties of songs and music of Cape Verde with this App

Hundreds of songs that portray the culture, tradition, celebrations, fund and entertainment in Cape Verde

The music is rich and universal manifestation of the culture of Cape Verde. Founder of a new nation from dozens of cultures of origin, the people of Cape Verde has developed original models of musical culture, where joys and sorrows, meetings and separations, the land and the sea, the famine and abundance, solitude and celebration, nostalgia, love, life, death are now transformed into Melopee painful, sorrowful murmurs, now still hopeful melodies or cries of joy and also swirls party

The varieties of songs and music include cantigas da monda, bombena, toadas de aboio, cantigas Maritimas, Cantigas de ninar (lullabies), lenga-lengas, praise and Vespers, Cantigas of a pastoral nature, rill or the maxixe (variant of landum), festas de Romaria (pilgrimage festivals), songs for dances such as the waltz, the mazurka and contradanca and even the chanting of carpideiras (mourners)

Melodies and rhythms with drum beats on the edge of pestles, led by an elderly woman, the coladera, leading a chorus of women singing a poignant melody and lackluster, like a lament, which evokes people and scenes of real life

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