Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

Angola: Cape Verde Singer Saturday in Luanda

10 May 2008

Luanda — Cape Verdean singer, Maria de Barros, will perform Saturday for the first time in Angola, at the invitation of Radio Vial, a source with the contracting team confirmed.

The singer who is already in the country since Friday will have as its special guests his fellow-countrymen Ze Rui de Pina and Djosinha, former the author of "Antoninho Bode".

Elected as World Music 2004 personality by the Afro-American Essence magazine, Maria de Barros was born in Senegal and grow up in Mauritania.

She plays samba, bolero and reggae. Maria de Barros has her life linked to music since childhood and reinforced with her marriage with the musician Mel Wilson Jr.

Maria de Barros has already released the compact disk Nha Mundo (2003) and Dança Ma Mi (2005).

Tagged: Angola, Arts, Arts, Cape Verde, Central Africa, Music, Southern Africa, West Africa

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