Bonga, a musician from Angola who sings in the semba style, performs at Real Art Ways in Hartford Sunday at 7 p.m. Angolan semba is similar to Brazilian samba. Exiled from Angola in 1972 for his ...

Luanda — The musicians Bangão, Lulas da Paixão and Calabeto will be performing on November 16-17 at "Casa70" for two shows under the "Show do Semba" Project. According to the source who was speaking ...

Luanda — The materialization of the project "Quintal do Semba" came to ensure the future of Semba and to show that the rhythms of root are still alive in Angola's music industry, said the Angolan ...

In this edition of World Music Matters, RFI’s Brenna Daldorph spoke with Paulo Flores, one of Angola’s most famous musicians and the father of modern semba music, when he spoke at an event by Modern ...

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 ...

This music encapsulated the moment. It is synthed up, but its smooth, tropical sound made it danceable and possible to play when acoustic and electric instruments were few and far between. The older ...